Hello Joseph Lloyd thanks for the answer. I'm about to finish Brad Traversy's course on Udemy about the MERN stack. It's 11 hours of content and very detailed. It's also making it obvious that it is a very painful process and probably a nightmare to maintain if you are a small team with no dedicated engineer to take care of this side of development.
I have setup my first NEXT project this morning - damn that was simple. I have not got to the point of adding middlewares, adding authentication and jwt tokens.
I will keep digging and report back. I'm glad though I'm going through the "pains" of MERN since many legacy projects will have it and it will be an easy way to understand and navigate through. I think that will also make me appreciate NEXT more. Heck even MERN.io is suggesting to move there.
I will try to build a Help desk knowledge base app with NEXT for an internal app we have at work. Seems like a good place to start and I will report back.
I'm sure the #hashnode team has good reasons for migrating. Syed Fazle Rahman please share any previous articles you wrote or resources about why you "sailed" away from it.
Cheers