Comment by onion2k
7 hours ago
Next.js supports fully static export, so they should went with that.
Keeping an unnecessary dependency for legacy reasons is never a good move. Be bold and delete things. Your software will be better for it.
7 hours ago
Next.js supports fully static export, so they should went with that.
Keeping an unnecessary dependency for legacy reasons is never a good move. Be bold and delete things. Your software will be better for it.
Wouldn't say unnecesarry. Nextjs static export has features such as dynamic chunking, eager-loading of chunks when you hover over a link, routing etc. With a plugin you get image optimization (different image quality levels and dimensions based on viewport size) etc.
But yes, another static site blog generator would also work.
The picture element [1], [2] supports controlling which image is used via a media selector, allowing you to serve smaller images on smaller devices and on things like the viewport orientation.
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
[2] https://caniuse.com/picture
All those features might be good in some contexts, but they're also literally the reason the author's blog couldn't get 100s on Lighthouse.
Image optimization is the only thing in that list I might care about, and every CDN I’ve ever used provides it out of the box.
My experience with Next.js is that because it mixes multiple paradigms, it makes using any single one of them more complicated and error prone.
Not just as the dev delivering the solution, but also library and package authors.
Ran into lots of issues around Next 12, Next 13 was very buggy, moved to Astro and never looked back.
> Wouldn't say unnecesarry. Nextjs static export has features such as dynamic chunking, eager-loading of chunks when you hover over a link, routing etc.
As someone who's ran a blog for 25 years it's surprising I never knew these things were necessary until now.
As someone who’s never ran a blog for the past 25 years it’s surprising I never knew a blog was necessary until now