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I don't really recommend isomorphic environments, but if it's your cup of tea, Tanstack Start is making a lot of progress. It removes all of the magic and misdirection of Nextjs and just provides a good light alternative.

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Issue with all things tanstack is they change everything constantly. The Tanner guy really does make decent libs but he drops em pretty quickly for others to take up maintenance on which makes it risky to pull into any production app.

The best library are the complete ones.

AFAIK "TanStack" doesn't support RSCs? That's a deal breaker for me. Also the guy named his framework after himself, it can't be good.

Linus named Linux after himself, it can't be good!

Linux also sucks for this reason /s

They built a half baked version of it and then haven’t finished it for a while but maybe they’ll get back to it sometime.

For the record, the TanStack name comes from the community. Eventually Tanner stopped fighting back and made it official

What do you get from RSCs that you don't get from creating a proper backend?

Having to glue the front-end and the back-end together.

*not having

You don’t have to. Inertia.js exists.

Inertia.js works based on pages as far as I know, right? We need load the data per page. RSC loads per component so I wouldn't call that comparable.

Could you please elaborate on why you don't recommend isomorphic environments?

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