NextJS is just for building the frontend. If you have an API layer written in Deno or whatever then you still need that. Reading online there seems to be a lot

NextJS is just for building the frontend. If you have an API layer written in Deno or whatever then you still need that. Reading online there seems to be a lot of confusion about what NextJS is with questions like is it better than nodejs, is it a backend server etc. It runs on a server, on nodejs, but it doesn't provide what most people think of as the backend. It serves the frontend files. It does a bunch of extra things for the frontend. Presumably there is a way to run your own api code alongside it in the same node instances. Not sure if that's wise or not. I personally prefer to start off with a plain react project with vite as the bundler and then host that statically without the extra SSR stuff. For an app website I think that's a better approach. For a informational website I'd probably look to other solutions.