Varun Srinivasan
@v
does anyone know of large, authenticated web apps built with nextjs? evaluating for web app
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borodutch
@warpcastadmin.eth
don't use nextjs for the love of god 👀
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Kiren Srinivasan
@kiren
Curious why you feel that way
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borodutch
@warpcastadmin.eth
- as industry we finally realized that users have supercomputers in their hands and we don't want to compute everything centrally with ssr - best case initial load of bundle is ~300kb (bit.ly/3woeAXH) as opposed to ~13kb with preact (bit.ly/3kDNkC5) - we came up with cdn's, use them to serve bundles etc etc etc
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forager
@forager
I’m honestly fairly horrified about the move towards SSR, and Google is one of the biggest proponents primarily because it makes their crawler bots easier and monopolies will just push the SSR costs onto providers. The user benefits seem largely minor in my view and better solved in other ways as you outlined.
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
fascinating. never heard about google pushing ssr because it lowers their operating costs
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borodutch
@warpcastadmin.eth
it also raises the profits from gcp and other cloud providers — so google, amazon, and yes — vercel — are pushing ssr onto devs with increasing force because they realized that if spa is served by github pages and cloudflare cdn *for free*, you can't charge people for that also if there is no backend... well th
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
overheard as gcp and aws discuss designing a new icon pack: "...and then it will compute the first 4m mersenne primes..."
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