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Next.js - My First Impressions

Alexandru Ene on October 10, 2025

Intro Hey, guys! Recently I've started getting familiar with Next.js. You know, I've been always so curious about learning new stuff and...
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Andrew Bone

If you want a next like experience and are familiar with TypeScript can I suggest having a play with Fresh. It uses Preact under the hood, Vite (as of the last update) and Deno (so TypeScript) but it all still feels very familiar.

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Alexandru Ene

Thank you! I will look into it!

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Jarne

At this point, I write all my Websites with nextjs. It makes everything so easy. I'm used to react, and nextjs gives it so much more possibilities. If it's just a static site, nextjs allows SEO. If it's a complete webapp, nextjs provides the necessary backend functionality. And besides that, it's super easy to host.

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Alexandru Ene

Cool! It kinda fees like React on steroids, right?

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Jarne

It sure does. It makes react look incomplete at least

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Alexandru Ene

Yes, I noticed that too. It is so easy to work with, that you feel you could build your app blindfolded. And I just started learning a few days ago.

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Yahaya Oyinkansola

Next makes building React apps more enjoyable, especially because of feature like image optimization and pre rendering of pages. I always like building front end websites and apps with it

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Dimitar Bogdanov

Routing being baked in is also probably the best thing ever. It's just there, the moment you need it, and requires practically no configuration for simple usecases. It's beautiful :D

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Alexandru Ene

I felt that too even from a beginner perspective. So easy to start the project and work immediately on the frontend.

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Theodora Cristea

Congratulations on your progress and for moving forward with your learning!
Be proud of yourself! Happy coding!🥰

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Alexandru Ene

Thank you so much! :)

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Neurabot • Edited

Beautiful. I will build projects with it in few weeks. I think about it

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Alexandru Ene

Thank you!