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if i'm coming from nextjs, what is the closest vite-based monorepo setup that lets me do frontend + backend api development? everyone keeps shilling vite to nextjs users but i've never found a good answer for this

the problem with not having a go-to template/pattern for this means that you wander into obscure territory where there are not many people refining the devex over time and LLMs become less effective. nextjs, vite (standalone), and even hono (standalone) have this quality but combining them gives you an obscure stack

the three leading horses seem to be:

- react router v7

- tanstack start

- hono + vite + react (they are trying to make hono/client into A Thing, and I absolutely love it)

no vendor lock-in on any of these.

I found the LLMs have to learn with you, maybe be instructed not to use older patterns.

imo if the framework fights you on basic things, it's too complicated 