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The problem with SPAs is that they have been misused and overused, at least in Italy. Tons of projects built with SPA in which we have to re-implement basic bro

The problem with SPAs is that they have been misused and overused, at least in Italy. Tons of projects built with SPA in which we have to re-implement basic browser features like the back button, just because project manager has no idea of how this technology works. I've worked on at least 4 projects which could be written in Nextjs in half of the time

aminerman 5y ago
They don't know about frameworks in Italy?
tofuahdude 5y ago
Hate to break it to you but Nextjs is for building SPAs.
- midiguy 5y ago
  I was going to say.... ironically NextJS is just an additional layer for creating static-rendered sites over an SPA framework. We have come full circle.
  - deltaonefour 5y ago
    All of software engineering is a flat circle. All of it. On the backend side it's microservices vs. monoliths.
- Toine 5y ago
  This is way oversimplified. You can build a completely static website with NextJS. What I love about it is that you can do everything : SSR by default, SSG as an option, and awesome features like ISR etc. However, the way NextJS implements SSR is really weird right now : if you use their <Link/> component, the pages props are actually fetched with an XHR request, then the page is rendered. I don't know why. It does feel like an SPA in the end.
- sinker 5y ago
  Next.js recommends delivering static assets by default and is geared towards that. > We recommend using Static Generation (with and without data) whenever possible because your page can be built once and served by CDN, which makes it much faster than having a server render the page on every request. If you need dynamic content, they recommend server-side rendering, and lastly client-side rendering only if the page is unaffected by SEO and requires a lot of in-page updates. https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/data-fetching/two-forms https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/data-fetching/two-forms

aminerman 5y ago

They don't know about frameworks in Italy?

tofuahdude 5y ago

Hate to break it to you but Nextjs is for building SPAs.

midiguy 5y ago
I was going to say.... ironically NextJS is just an additional layer for creating static-rendered sites over an SPA framework. We have come full circle.
- deltaonefour 5y ago
  All of software engineering is a flat circle. All of it. On the backend side it's microservices vs. monoliths.
Toine 5y ago
This is way oversimplified. You can build a completely static website with NextJS. What I love about it is that you can do everything : SSR by default, SSG as an option, and awesome features like ISR etc. However, the way NextJS implements SSR is really weird right now : if you use their <Link/> component, the pages props are actually fetched with an XHR request, then the page is rendered. I don't know why. It does feel like an SPA in the end.
sinker 5y ago
Next.js recommends delivering static assets by default and is geared towards that. > We recommend using Static Generation (with and without data) whenever possible because your page can be built once and served by CDN, which makes it much faster than having a server render the page on every request. If you need dynamic content, they recommend server-side rendering, and lastly client-side rendering only if the page is unaffected by SEO and requires a lot of in-page updates. https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/data-fetching/two-forms https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/data-fetching/two-forms