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Hot take: I strongly disagree with this.

How "natural" something feels at first should have very little impact on your choice of tech. Fear of a learning curve causes a lot of long-term harm because those things that are easier at first get exponentially more difficult at scale.

John moved away from Next.js – what went wrong?

They felt the navigation was slow and ultimately ended up migrating away.

Made a quick video to explain the different data fetching patterns building dashboard apps and how John can get snappy navigations without loading spinners. https://t.co/KaO4lyPKMb

so we just got schooled by @leerob for moving off Next.js (which is so cool) and here are some comments:

1. on both nextjs and now vite, most (if not all of) our data fetching is done through react swr on client side. So the loading spinner speed would have been similar

2. the…

John Yeo

Really interesting thread though: https://x.com/johnyeo_/status/1901462201157951773

Generally agree, but in this case the learning curve is to learn framework specific techniques that shouldn’t necessarily be framework-specific. Next.js is powerful and useful but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to reach for a tool that is more fundamental and less abstract.