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I've been checked-out of the SSG world for a couple years and am now evaluating different tools and frameworks for a project at work.

I'm intrigued by the direction being taken by Remix, which posits that today's backend options are so improved compared to those of the recent past that they (arguably) have eroded the utility of a static site, period.

https://remix.run/blog/remix-vs-next

When it's not crazy difficult or expensive to have a very fast app _and_ database close to your users, you don't have to architect around that deficiency, which is what SSGs are designed to do.

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Though it's worth keeping in mind that Next's next big structural update [1] is pretty much an attempt to assimilate some of the basic concepts of Remix wholesale.

[1]: https://nextjs.org/blog/layouts-rfc

Not exactly – this has been in discussion for many years. From the post:

> Some routing conventions were inspired by the Relay-based router at Meta, where some features of Server Components were originally developed, as well as client-side routers like React Router and Ember.js. The layout.js file convention was inspired by the work done in SvelteKit.

No doubt React Router has certainly impacted the entire React ecosystem, though!

Interesting. Ultimately neither one of these companies stand to make money selling a web framework, but one of them happens to have a business for which it makes sense to commoditize and control its complements.

Put another way: Remix may have underestimated the value Next represents to Vercel.

remix comes with the main caveat that if your API is slow or very far away you will end up with a slow frontend, whereas next.js prerenders pages meaning they're always going to be fast. obviously this doesn't matter that much if you're making a customer dashboard but if you want to have public facing data and your backend isn't globally replicated you are either going to have to implement your own caching layer or your users are going to have a bad time

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