The new `getServerSideProps` function addresses my biggest pain point with Next.js. I found it super awkward that if you wanted to make a website with data from

The new `getServerSideProps` function addresses my biggest pain point with Next.js. I found it super awkward that if you wanted to make a website with data from a database, you basically needed two webservers: one to access the database and expose it over the web via a raw format like JSON, and then a Next.js-powered one to take that JSON and make it into HTML. For a lot of projects that separation can be nice, but for small sites or prototypes it's too much effort. Now I can easily have the Next.js server access the database directly.