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nothing specific about next.js but its widely used and this guy chose to provide a easy hands-free tool for that very popular framework
by biosboiii 2y ago
nothing specific about next.js but its widely used and this guy chose to provide a easy hands-free tool for that very popular framework
- azangru 2y ago> nothing specific about next.js But why do people online complain so much that Next is difficult to self-host? Is it just because self-hosting is difficult, or is it something about Next? I suppose the fancy stuff such as "skew protection", which is probably going to be quite important for anyone using server components and server actions, is going to be fiendishly difficult to achieve.
- cryptonym 2y agoNext.js is maintained by a hosting company. While the core framework is open-source, all their solutions to deploy and scale properly are not open-source.
- nsonha 2y agoThat puts it at the same level as every other framework, who is not owned by a hosting company and doesn't even have an official solution to scale and deploy "properly"
- presentation 2y agoWhile it's simple to run NextJS as a simple Node process that server-renders everything it's not trivial to run it in the way the Vercel does, including running middlewares specifically on a different edge runtime (as well as supporting the `export const runtime = "edge"` directives); incremental static regeneration (statically pre-rendering some set of routes at build time and then hosting them as static files from a CDN rather than computing them at request time), and so on. I'm guessing this solution doesn't really do that stuff, but for many apps it's not a big deal if it doesn't.
- graphememes 2y agoI've noticed a lot of this lately where someone is like this is an alternative to xyz and it does like 2% of what that service or application actually does.