Agreed, this is how our team uses it. We hire React devs and teach them Next.js day 1 and essentially their React experience is helpful but Next is the main focus for the devs.
Nobody is forcing you to use all the capabilities. You can still use it for client-side only if you want, but the efficiency of having both is perfect for me personally and our company.
I think the author is mistaken. You can build a PWA, SPA in Next.js and it's even easier than not using it.
I feel like the author is just confused that they're not specifically focusing on SPA because whether anyone wants to admit or not, enterprise companies aren't asking for SPA, or mobile apps, they're asking for headless, static websites. It makes sense that React would respond to those market demands.
Was very interested in the article, but after 2 Nest 12 references I started questioning their credibility, and after a bunch more of the same error, I realized the author has probably never used Next. Some people here are saying it shouldn't matter. Of course it should. The author picked a tech for the analogy, most likely one they know the most about. And yet they call it Nest... which means they most likely aren't actually close to the development workflow whatsoever.
Eh, I disagree. It's a tech article and the writer clearly isn't familiar enough with the topic to catch this issue. It shows they are not actually really close to the tech or if they are, they don't proofread their articles.
Completely agree. I could care less if it's not about Next. The fact that nobody caught this when proof reading says it all. Probably written by a Jr dev or non-techy writer.
I used to agree with this and think of it as a main benefit, but setting up a server to use Nodejs is easy and a lot of servers come prepped with node, npm, etc, so it's just as easy ad starting up a PHP project, if not easier because package.json can easily install dependencies.
Yes, but that doesn't make it a programming language. A lot of things can render HTML. I am pretty fluent in Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, React, Nodejs, Nextjs, PHP, Python, and a beginner in Java and a few others. React is not a programming language.
For those of us who know we won't be replaced, we only benefit from this FUD