Tangentially, who else misses the time when React was just a side project by FB? Increasingly it seems to be led by Vercel who makes profit from React-based solutions.
And being a Vercel customer has been wonderful. Their systems are so much nicer to work with than legacy web stacks/VMs/containers, or trying to hook something up in PHP or Java. The dev ex is awesome, being able to `create-next-app` and deploy to Vercel in like 3 minutes.
currently, deploying on vercel is so easy and the project structure works on any other compute instance that migrating away will be easy too, and breaking versions of Next or NextAuth can just not be used
Vercel is a business with a very good value proposition. And Next is open source with a huge community. It's not perfect, and Vercel isn't perfect, but among its peers (the web industry) it stands out to me as one of the two companies I'd trust to steward the future of the web (the other being Cloudflare). Way way way more so than Meta or Google, because at the end of the day at least these companies are selling good web hosting, not shitty advertising, and aren't run by total dicks either.
Do I wish they were nonprofits with shared governance? Yeah, maybe. But short of that, their track record has actually been incredible.
The web is still immature enough (surprising, I know) that new companies and technologies rise and fall all the time. Today's vendor lock-in is tomorrow's opportunity for another young upstart, the same way Next was to React, the way React was to Angular, the way Angular was to the frameworks before it. I'm not too worried.
It doesn't make sense to be afraid of Next when it's really just repackaged cloud hosting in a very shiny wrapper. They resell AWS and GCP and Cloudflare infra at a markup but make it much much easier to use. It's a win win for everyone as far as I can tell.
Between MUI and Next and RTK-query, IMO, React is finally approaching something usable and complete.
Not a React fanboy. I loved Angular v1, in fact. Just hate how minimalist and useless vanilla React was.
Edit: And maybe this is a problem of scale too. At Meta's size or similar, React is just one component and one team that works alongside dozens of others to deliver a working product. But when they open source it, smaller companies and individuals also try to use it but without Meta's scale and resources. And they inevitably find it lacking because they don't have whole teams working on the rest of the problem (like basic routing, which Meta handles in their derivative of PHP, I think?) , so they have to hope someone else (like react router) solved that problem in a drop-in way. That's why Next is so magical for small and medium businesses; they do a lot of that curation and infra building for you, for a reasonable fee.
Also Vercel/NextJS is like if DHH was charging people to use Rails. We are in the “enshittification” part of react development.
is this satire?
(By the way, don't forget that [] or it does a completely different thing that you never want.)
I'm sorry, the entire community rallied around hooks PRECISELY because the life cycle methods were not clear and were very problematic.
It seems extremely strange to see such opinions.
When you see a hook you know exactly when it's going to execute and why and because of what. You don't have to layer the methods with tons of checks making sure the life cycle method has been run in the right context, it literally just works.
Anyway, both are fine and usable haha. Just think there are arguments to be made on both sides.
It's complicated. If you want the vercel like experience of deploying to a serverless environment it's not as trivial. There is a reason that open-next exists.