I used Next.js for the first time (on a real project) for my course about React hooks [1]. I love it now! I used to create my React projects with Parcel [2], but I’m pretty sure Next.js will now be my default stack to start a new side project.

Only downside I see: a Next.js app using functions or server-side rendering is not easy to deploy somewhere else than on Vercel [3]. And Vercel is great (even with its free tier), but if you don’t like it, you’ll have to do some manual work to deploy your app.

[1] https://useeffect.dev [2] https://parceljs.org [3] https://vercel.com