Next.js
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
19warn against
Nov 1, 2025first mention
Oct 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Next is a full stack framework”
founder building SaaS starterson “Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't p…”
“Man, I love Next ... but I also love Vite”
uses it at their companyon “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week”
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“a more modern Next.js-powered stack that's faster, lighter weight, and easier for them to manage”
15 years working with clients on WordPress sitesswitched from WordPresson “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)”
“I've switched to React/Next.js for new non-progressive UIs”
switched from Vueon “Please just try HTMX”
Caveats and dissent
“I recommend ditching Next.js in favor of Tanstack Start”
“We use nextjs at work and I hate it.”
uses it at workon “Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lightho…”
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“the push towards server rendering and partnering with Next.js”
Often compared with
1 moved from Next.js to Vite
2 moved from Next.js to Astro
2 moved from Next.js to TanStack Start
Who recommends it in their own words
senior backend engineerhiring at Empower Pharmacybuilt a non-profit directoryjob seeker, CS studentFront-end engineer seeking workself-taught AI engineerfounder building SaaS startersfull-stack engineer specializing in production LLM systemshiring at Shepherdindependent web dev, 10 yearsbuilding a coding agent platformsolo founder
Threads where it came up
- How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week 4 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) 3 mentions
- We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2 3 mentions
- Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category 2 mentions
- Phoenix LiveView 1.2 Released 2 mentions
- Astro Joining Cloudflare 2 mentions
Data: next-js.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“I recommend ditching Next.js in favor of Tanstack Start”
“We use nextjs at work and I hate it.”
“The easy nextjs deployment is also my go-to now”
“I am allergic to Next”
“Next.js/React”
“Tech stack: Java / Spring Boot, React / Next.js, Azure (Service Bus, Kubernetes), SQL Server.”
“the push towards server rendering and partnering with Next.js”
“I’ve put together a Next.js 16 template with the code and setup instructions.”
“Stack is just Next.js / React + PostgreSQL hosted on Vercel + Supabase with GH Actions.”
“Frontend: Next.js (AWS Amplify + AWS WAF)”
“I'm not sure how this differs from NextJS (or Vite)”
“No Redux or Next.JS”
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UTC−3) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TypeScript (strict) · React · Next.js · Node.js · Python · SQL/PostgreSQL · Supabase · Docker · GitHub Actions/CI · Azure · LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI) · RAG · agent architectures · Cursor/Claude Code in the daily loop Résumé/CV: https://sidneyferreira.com - https://aifield.tech — https://github.com/sidfer Email: ferreirasidn
“React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, Nest.js, PostgreSQL”
“LLM evals, TypeScript, Next.js”
“The stack is Next.js / React / Zustand with zundo for undo/redo, Clerk for auth.”
“Knowing their track record with vendor lock-in and Next.js, where they do everything possible to push you onto Vercel Cloud — no thanks.”
“Next is a full stack framework”
“we actually use React / Vite and Next with Persona across a few of our products”
“I managed to get full next.js running properly on shared hosting”
“My private next.js fullstack slop runs dockerized on my kubernetes cluster”
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye (relocating to Guildford, UK in Sept 2026) Remote: Yes — full EU overlap; US-East evenings (UTC+3, moving to UTC+0) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Fastify, Next.js, React, React Native/Expo, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Redis/BullMQ, Claude API, RAG, tool-calling/MCP, pgvector, Playwright Résumé/CV: https://github.com/denizcakiroglu322 Email: denizcakiroglu322@gma
“painful deviations like React, Tailwinds, NextJS, I've learned them all”
“For web development I've used a number of tools, but mostly react, nextjs, or raw html/css/js.”
“Vibe Coding helped me build something with NextJS and Sanity”
“Our stack includes: Typescript, React, Next.js, GraphQL w/ Apollo, Node.js, Postgres & Redis”
“I switched from React/Next to Vue/Nuxt.”
“with turbo pack, the app router (and the insane amount of bugs that came with it) it's no longer my go-to frontend framework.”
“when I used Next.js a few months ago, models kept using cookies() and headers() without await”
“I was paying Vercel $20 per month for serving static pages”
“My current stack is Astro/Next.js + Tailwind + TypeScript”
“Next has evolved to include many abstractions, features, and tools, which often means the teaching quickly becomes centered around the Next way of building things.”
“runs a NextJS app”
“Next.js for the frontend/API.”
“Tech: Next.js 15 / TypeScript / Supabase (Postgres) / Vercel / Resend”
“Tech: Next.js 15, Supabase (Postgres, 954K+ records), Vercel (102kB first load), Plausible + GA4.”
“Tech: Next.js 15, Supabase (Postgres, 954K+ records), Vercel (102kB first load), Plausible + GA4.”
“keeping up with the App Router and debugging opaque cache directives started to feel like a second job.”
“half-baked, but working Next.js PDF-reader”
“Built with Next.js 16, Clerk for auth, and Neon for the database.”