Yeah, this is shocking to me. I’m a backend developer who occasionally tinkers with frontend. I gave nextjs a spin and couldn’t believe the reload times on a new project.
For folks who use this every day, how/why is this acceptable?
For folks who use this every day, how/why is this acceptable?
I had the same experience of slow refreshes on the NextJS project I worked on (running locally) and the other seasoned NextJS developers didn't think it was unusual.
While I thankfully don't have to use Nextjs often, in general I am not sure I even launch my app in the browser every single day. Your tests and whatnot are already providing continuous feedback about the state of the code. 6-7 seconds every once in a while wouldn't be the end of the world.
But even it were instantaneous, Nextjs has a horrible developer experience for a multitude of other reasons.