Yeah, that's about right. I was also surprised to see Gatsby and Next.js listed in backend, but it makes a weird kind of sense. I think "static site generators"

Yeah, that's about right. I was also surprised to see Gatsby and Next.js listed in backend, but it makes a weird kind of sense. I think "static site generators" would be a better umbrella, but it's a shady distinction for sure. And your summary of Next.js API Routes is correct as well. As an example, I have a site built in Next that needs to be able to query data off of a SQLite database. Back in the old days I would have set up a simple PHP server of some kind… today I might have knocked something crappy together in Node… but in Next, you just point at a route, grab the SQLite database out of the filesystem, and look over your query parameters. It's really neat.