My thoughts on the Next.js 'App Router' & what I (don't) like about it

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[pancho]

I bought your React course a long time ago Max, the one with the burger project and got to say that thanks to you, gave me a nice introduction and a set of tools that i'm still using this day. You are a great teacher and developer Max 😊

[georgepetroff]

As someone who transitioned from being a C# developer to a FullStack Developer using NextJS, I have to say that Max's courses were invaluable. Without his clear, engaging teaching style and well-structured content, the journey would have been much more challenging. Thank you, Max, for providing such excellent resources and for your effective teaching approach! Danke vielmals!

[jamesr]

Almost completing my first substantial Full Stack React JS project, and blissfully trying my best to avoid learning yet another -- yes been to php already -- framework, but you have thrown a spanner in the works. Thank you for spoiling my day.

[uzochukwuamarabenneth]

Hey Max, thanks for your tremendous impact on me durin when i started React, i couldn't even finish the burger app back then due to its complexity but that course gave me the solid foundation which i built upon till this day.

One issue i have with Next 14 is using redirect("") in a server action try/catch block, this bug still hasn't been fixed.

[patrickcate]

Nice overview of the new features. I hope we’ll see an update to your Nuxt and Svelte courses.

[okadz]

i built ecommerce website to one of my clients with nextjs, in the dev mode everything works just fine, but when i delivered the site to my client, happened horible caching i remember i lost my mind bcuz i didnt know nextjs aggresive cach in production mode

[coinvest]

Hi Max, I would like you to upgrade next-auth to version 5 in your course.

[zaabimahdi]

Next js and all it's new features are good for static WEB SITES such as e-commerce ...
For web applications, and entreprise development level, React (with the traditional useState, useEffect ..) still the most appropriate ...

[jamshediqbal]

I also have the issue with file names being same like …/page.tsx and …/route.ts which are bit difficult to manage and switch between…..

[daniel]

Any opinions of Angular 17? I never seen framework with the better combo of dev experience, structured code, scalability. Great thing they ditched the module files

[ActiveAndReactive]

Same file name issue may be improved by improving the IDE or dev tools, not the framework itself. The IDE may display something like 'search/page.tsx' and 'register/page.tsx' rather than displaying 'page.tsx'.

[emadkiani]

I prefer Remix due to the exact problems I have with NextJS. In my experience, Remix offers a more enjoyable way to develop web apps with more features. But as a junior web developer, I go for NextJS because there are more samples and greater community support.

[Ga-]

Which is better: Next js or Remix js? :)
What are your thoughts, Max?

[firewatermoonsun]

It might be better to remove auto caching and add an option to cache queries like in Graphql. Caching everything seems overkill.

[xiliyan]

Next.js turning into Laravel :) Nice, Laravel is my favorite framework!

[jobayeralMahmudahad]

Dealing with the caching problems in Next.js 14 is really getting on my nerves. It should be a helpful feature, not a headache I have to constantly deal with during development.

[budgeter]

the naming of nextjs is reallly creazy at times when searching for a single file. Now I have to search for its parent folder instead of its file

[DucaTech]

Are you going to do a udemy course on latest Angular? And maybe sometime on Java itself.

[LGelashvili]

One thing that annoys me is when certain functionalities behave differently after building the app.

[ob]

i dont see any entreprise will use this type of architecture