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by hombre_fatal 356 days ago
Next.js and similar are surprisingly complicated. You pay a hefty price for the optimization of SPA + data on the first request (which is a cool optimization).

I think one of the reasons it's so popular is less about the niche optimization and more about how it seems simpler, especially to beginners, than running an API server that your frontend app connects to.