Next.js

Let’s get into the challenges and strategies of loading data in web applications, focusing on the comparison between client-rendered sites and server-rendered applications. There are some clear negative performance impacts of SPAs and server-rendered apps are *usually* better here, except when data is slow. Then what?

Today, I did some maintenance work on a Next.js course website (we have tons of them built on Next.js), and I thought to myself: “Wow, this framework has been around for a long time and continues to evolve. It is certainly not a one-hit-wonder.” For context, I’m generally more of a purist, opting to use […]