It's the Vercel way to first run broken previews for several years.

Next started with Turbopack alpha as a Webpack alternative in Next 13 (October 2022) and finally marked Turbopack as stable and default in Next 16 (October 2025). They also ran sketchy benchmarks against Vite back in 2022 [0].

Next's caching has a terrible history [1], it is demonstrably slow [2] (HN discussion [3]), RSCs had glaring security holes [4], the app router continues to confuse and relied on preview tech for years, and hosting Next outside of Vercel requires a special adapter [5].

Choosing Next.js is a liability.

0 - https://github.com/yyx990803/vite-vs-next-turbo-hmr/discussi...

1 - https://nextjs.org/blog/our-journey-with-caching

2 - https://martijnhols.nl/blog/how-much-traffic-can-a-pre-rende...

3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277148

4 - https://nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478

5 - https://opennext.js.org/

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ssijak 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Next took a very bad turn and double downed on it. Coupled with years of terrible bugs its beyond repair for me unless they rewind a bunch of core changes they did.

There are several much better options right now. My favourite is Tanstack Start. No magice, great DX

	▲	adamgoodapp 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		+1 for Tanstack start. I just setup a new project with it and like the whole ecosystem. Only slight disadvantage is most third party documentation and automatic setup with packages aren't setup for Tanstack Start yet.

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littlecranky67 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Any suggestions to replace NextJS when you only use static export (no SSR)?

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dbbk 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tanstack Start is the gold standard here. It’ll do a static export no problem.

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christophilus 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It depends on your application, but for typical SPAs, there are any number of approaches which are better than next by every metric I (personally) care about.

	▲	littlecranky67 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Care to list those?

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J_tt 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Astro: https://astro.build/

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littlecranky67 3 hours ago | parent [-]

From my first glance, it is not really. Has its own templating syntax, its own file format etc. With NextJS static export I only have valid react/tsx and would not want to introduce a framework-specific language. Also could not easily find something about the routing

	▲	nobleach 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		While Astro does indeed have its own type of components, it also supports React, Solid and a host of others. So transplanting your current tree of components in, adding the React plugin and saying "GO" is likely a fairly straight-forward project. I moved a previous static site into an older verison of Astro with very little trouble.

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NamlchakKhandro 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

tanstack router