[henning]

> Then again, I don't think <500 kB is too much traffic for a modern website, especially since the page is already usable after the first 100 kB.

I could not disagree more. Why does a "modern" website that just has simple static text and images need to be tens of times larger/slower to load than a simple static website with plain old HTML and CSS?

What kind of "developer experience" do you need for a static website? Just write HTML or markup and run it on a local server with hot reload -- what more do you want/need? Specifically what use cases is NextJS satisfying here?

[darepublic]

when your site gets really large and complex then plain vanilla js is hard to maintain, no?

[niutech]

We're talking about a blog/personal website, not an advanced PWA.