[ljm]

I don’t know how to put this any other way but my experience with NextJS or just JS-first full stack is that they are still first and foremost a tech stack for frontend devs and the backend piece in that context is an afterthought.

I’ve worked on a few in my time and ‘API routes’ were rarely, if ever, authenticated, and there wouldn’t be a consistent strategy for data access. If anything, everything was built in the context of satisfying a react hook and getting on with the UI.

But I don’t squarely blame developers for it, it’s more like an inverted full stack where the browser is first class and the serverless edge SSR ISG SSG app router component craziness does not help you build out a stable API. Does sell a hell of a lot of SaaS though.