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Please stop recommending Next.js as the de facto React framework, we need some critical thinking back into front-end. Remix (React Router v7) or TanStack are much better alternatives.


Second this. Next.js had potential, but it feels like it's gone downhill majorly since Vercel got involved.

Been on the Next.js journey since v10, lived through the v13 debacle and even now on v15, I've very much cooled on it.

I find both React and Next.js move way too fast and make incredibly radical changes sub-annually. It's impossible to keep up with. Maybe it could be justified if things improved from time to time, but often it just feels like changes for changes' sake.


Remix/React Router v7 was/is on a right path. I hope whatever they are planning with Remix with preact and using web standards will bring back the robust way of building websites.

I did not like how Remix to RR7 transition was made though, my project built using Remix was not an easy upgrade and I am rewriting a lot of it on RR7 now.


Absolutely agree, the Remix/RR7 move was awkward and they have a thing for breaking changes, TanStack seems more reasonable on that part.


We're still on RR5 since they decided to change how nested routes work, a nested router doesn't get all params from parent routes, and after advocating absolute paths they switch to advocating relative paths, which are a mess when you want to use a component in multiple places and harder to debug / verify (all our routes are fully typed safe)


Please stop recommending React as the de facto framework, we need some critical thinking back into front-end. HTML, CSS and JS are much better alternatives.




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