> I'd highly recommend staying away from the dumpster fire that is Next.js. It's too bad it's like the top skill asked for by employers these days, who seem to have no idea what they're signing up for.
100% agree and we need more people saying it. It is crazy how it got so big. Look at the amount of (breaking) changes that benefit no one except vercel (others cannot really keep up, and that's the plan) and the almost unbelievable amount of sloppy CVEs all over the place (patched automatically if you run with vercel). We get called in after things go wrong to monkey patch it so the business keeps going: nextjs issues are delivering us a lot of work.
If there is another sustained recession, I do wonder how these companies will handle the turmoil. Cutting overpaid services seems like a no-brainer if you have to tighten your belt.
I've also never seen next.js mentioned in a job ad where I worked for the last 10 years (greater Boston area), never really heard much from them during the meetup scene during that time either (2015-2020). I wonder if these customers are more associated with SV businesses, where VC's force their portfolio to buy services from each other.
100% agree and we need more people saying it. It is crazy how it got so big. Look at the amount of (breaking) changes that benefit no one except vercel (others cannot really keep up, and that's the plan) and the almost unbelievable amount of sloppy CVEs all over the place (patched automatically if you run with vercel). We get called in after things go wrong to monkey patch it so the business keeps going: nextjs issues are delivering us a lot of work.