Shane Burgess

You did a great job on this article. I was in almost the same position thinking why should I learn this. But I ultimately took the time to work with it and I like Next.js alot. It is funny how paged based routing is cool again when that used to be the only option :) I always loved the idea of having a base page and then hydrating the data in the page vs having a blank page and waiting for the data fetch to happen to be able to see something. It is how I used to work with Angular 1 back in the day. It is great to see Next.js use that paradigm. Keep up the good work and I look forward to reading more from you.

Hi, thanks for the comment! Funny you say that I was thinking that I will do a follow up to this article to explore building something in React VS HTMX and try to figure out advantages and disadvantages. Going back to what I did in the past, the advantage was to write less logic around displaying things. There are also major advantages for apps that care about SEO with something like Livewire or Hotwire (Need to see if that is true for HTMX). That advantage is that you can display the full page with no javascript and that might make it easier for bots. Keep an eye out for more articles to come.