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by the_mitsuhiko 452 days ago
> But I don't think there is a drop-in replacement for ALL that Next does.

The entirety of vite + tanstack (in particular the upcoming tanstack-start) is getting quite close. For quite a few uses that folks currently use next fork, I would argue that much of what tanstack does is a better fit. Eg: non marketing sites, but SaaS style dashboards.
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solardev 451 days ago
Does that put you in a situation where the builder/bundler is made by a different vendor than the router & cache management layer?

That was one of the nice benefits of Next when it first came out, vs Frankensteining these basic concerns together on top of React with a bunch of different libs that don't always track each other in terms of upgrade compatibility, often resulting in dependency hell.

Is that still the case today?

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the_mitsuhiko 451 days ago
> Does that put you in a situation where the builder/bundler is made by a different vendor than the router & cache management layer?

Like in next? Next uses webpack (at least for the most part, there is now also turbo support but it's limited to dev builds for now) which is built by other people. Tanstack is intentionally building on vite and from what I can tell there is quite a deep cooperation going on. Most frameworks outside of the Vercel sphere have all put themselves on vite and started embracing it. Solid, Vue, Remix and Tanstack are all on vite and leveraging that rather than building their own infrastructure.

I think next.js is a terrific project for the record, but I happen to mostly sit in the space where it doesn't quite play out its strengths. [1] So I'm quite used to frankensteining over the years and Vite has made my life much more pleasant in that regard. It feels quite cohesive and it's so damn quick compared to the status quo ante.

[1]: That thing is highly interactive SaaS software with backends that are not written in JavaScript.

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