| ▲ | mellosouls 14 hours ago |
| Reminder, as its not mentioned: Next.js is produced by Vercel, a competitor to Railway. |
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| ▲ | debarshri 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Moving to vite + tanstack builds faster is also a fact. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Only if they weren't using Turbopack. | | |
| ▲ | lukasholzer 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | does turbopack make such a difference on next.js sites? | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, because it is yet another Typescript and Webpack like compiler written in Rust. Note how many HNers are making the same remark. |
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| ▲ | cryptonym 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| True. That framework is owned by a cloud company and the way they host Next.js apps in a secure and scalable way remains secret sauce. Now it doesn't really impact build time and Railway offers Next.js hosting. |
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| ▲ | abustamam 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's not mentioned because it's not relevant. |
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| ▲ | mellosouls 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Of course it should be mentioned, it's a basic disclaimer. | |
| ▲ | norman784 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know the situation now, but a while ago there were a lot of pushback using Next.js because it was not easy to use all features if not hosted on Vercel. | | |
| ▲ | abustamam 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | We used NextJS on a project hosted on AWS a while ago. We learned quickly it wasn't the best tool for what we wanted to do which is why we stopped using it. But it's an open source project whose purpose is to drive devs to Vercel. It doesn't surprise me that there are some features that work best with Vercel (but it does surprise me that only recently other providers started to need adapters). Anyway, my point is that no one is forced to use NextJS and if they like NextJS but not Vercel they can always fork it or, apparently write an adapter. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Besides the way it maps server side code into serverless, it has a custom runtime, functions that expose cloud infrastructure, integration with multiple language runtimes for the backend. You get to pick Vercel + headless CMS + assets managed + eshop, and you're done in terms of big corporations. Might seem a lot in licenses, however it allows for smaller dev teams, which is what management floor cares about, all those salaries. |
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