A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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Things I’ll say on farcaster but not on X: Some days NextJS feels like a massive top of funnel scam to get you locked in to Vercel only features. The amount of breaking changes and complexity to utility ratio seems very off with this project…

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I generally don’t mind for smaller projects where I need to ship something quick, but it’s definitely worth your time to learn how to migrate to another stack/platform.

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what’s your go to for something that also provides robust scaffolding but is less opinionated?

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awesome thanks!

the caching is infuriating — using Next makes me feel like an old codger complaining about how complicated and abstracted everything is

I'm personally a huge fan of Astro! 

- Can do server, client, or hybrid rendering 
- Has integrations for any UI framework like React, Svelte, Vue, etc 
- Has loads of deployment adapters for other platforms or even for self hosting 
- DOESN'T CACHE EVERYTHING 😂
- Also works great for content sites because of its md/mdx built-ins 

Story: my personal website is built in Astro, and I had one blog post in particular go super viral. Started getting alerts in Vercel that I was going over limits, and in 10 mins I was able to deploy to Cloudflare instead where it handled insane traffic for free.