React Framework Comparison: Gatsby, Next.js, Blitz, Redwood

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00:00 - Introduction
00:25 - TL;DR
03:45 - Create React App
05:35 - Gatsby
16:00 - Blitz
19:55 - RedwoodJS

[timroth]

Trying Redwood right now, and absolutely in love with it. It gives so much without creating abstractions like Blitz.js, it's just a simple GraphQl layer. I think for startups Redwood is the winner, gives so much more freedom, flexibility, and big plus the developers can work with something more than familiar.

[codefinity]

Great TLDW at the beginning. That's what I watched! :) Regarding CRA, we might say that to start off with learning React, it's the way to go. If we use too much magic, with routing, etc. then we miss out on understanding more about how React is working, which typically is a bad thing.

[instrusic]

Hi, Leigh. I bought your Next.js course.
Before starting it I already knew Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL and Prisma still I learnt a lot.
Thank you for your videos and your awesome course. Highly recommend it 🙌

[ralphel-samra]

Very good and honest comparison. You explained very well with good examples to back up what you're saying

[syrix]

really good video! thx for the tldr at the start.

[micoberss]

This was helpful. I wanted to try Next js, never had time for it. I got confused when I was watching this comparison, and now don't know which framework to try first. But still I'll check out Next js, because it's older and has a good reputation in the industry.
And thank you Leigh for doing this comparison

[riongull]

Great breakdown. I like Blitz the most.

[hiranga]

Cool video! Any comparisons between Next, Svelte and Redwood? Intent to build an app, with API and a graph db. ?

[huella]

The automatically generated subtitles are in the Vietnamese language, which is incorrect!

[avertry]

What happened to Blitz..? It's been a year.
v0.45.4
Latest
on 12 Apr

[nguyenkien]

The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination

[VanjaMk]

You would use CRA if you want an SPA over SSR. For an app behind auth, SSR is often times unnecessary complexity.

[mkroven]

From Gatsby v3, u dont need a qraphql query to load every image.
And Next/Auth seems enough when I need.

[MaxProgramming]

Haven't used Blitz and Redwood but about to try them. Let's see who wins

[MaksymMinenko]

Redwoodjs does not support CSS Modules (or any other scoped css solution), and that annoys me greatly.

[TommyTheJ]

love TL;DR.... all < 20 mins YT videos should have that -.-

[mooder]

Hey Leigh, I'm wondering if you could make a tutorial making an app that uses auth with protected routes in Next.js using external api, most content that I've seen about Next was using the built in next node api but in real apps mostly this is'nt the case they always try to seperate front from back .

[ammarmahmoud]

can y share video compare between React Frameworks and Angular :)

[indycinema]

All of this is fine editorial but the real difference is what is the build times on a non-trivial (mid-sized to large-size app). Gatsby is a mess at this level. (random heap overflows & 30+ minute build times) I'm not sure about the rest but I can only imagine the build times are rough for all of them. Building a language inside a language inside a language is where we sadly are in web dev.

[kumekster]

Over 9000 thumbs up for TL;DR at start.