ReactJS or NextJS

Should you learn ReactJS or NextJS? What is the difference between NextJS and ReactJS? How do they relate to each other? What value does NextJS add? Learn about all of this, in a minute.

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[kikevanegazz]

It seems as though the reason to choose either is whether the programmer is professional or want to seem professional, and the truth is that many apps don't require server-side rendering.

[bobDotJS]

Vite, not CRA. Never CRA, but Next is overkill sometimes

[punkweb]

If we're moving away from SPAs, at this point why use Nextjs at all instead of just using something like Django, Rails, Laravel, etc? You know, frameworks that actually have their shit together.

[omrtheater]

Not to sound rude, but the question which one to use wasn't really answered. Obviously SEO is Next's biggest real advantage but other than this, it's just an opinionated React with SSR/SSG capabilities. You can just install react router for example instead of using Next's built-in router management. I saw you mention Security at a different comment, but if you build the back-end, this is where you can make it very secure. So I still don't understand the advantage. To me, if you need SEO go with Next.js. If not, then why else would you?

[tasin]

Would you prefer NextJs over vanilla react for apps that have a lot of client side interactions with forms?

[ibrahimm.]

Short, but the message extremely powerful.

[harryzachariou]

I often ponder the use case for either, there isn’t many options for cheap self hosting of nextJS you’ll end up using vercel or netlify, I’ve seen some implementations with lambda at edge with AWS but they never support the latest nextJS version

[imnash_on_E]

I used React JS with Laravel (Inertia JS)

[alexander_ci]

Another part should also be flexibility and extensibility.

These words are thrown around a bunch, but a real situation I encountered recently was specific AWS front end libraries not working with Next.js because of non native Next support for AWS-CRT (common runtime).

Trying to deal with polyfills and aws-crt (which basically tries to bundle Node functionality that is natively supported in the browser) was a nightmare. The current solution is downloading binaries written in C into your node_modules. Nextjs says they have experimental support for aws-crt but it’s not fully there.

So forced my hand on using React built with Vite

[andrewmartinez]

Correct me if I'm wrong but with next js, you'll have to pay for servers just to render html pages? Why not just go MVC from the backend?

[unlucky-]

Learn basic of React and learn NextJS is you want to enter the working area

[TalhaShaikh-vw]

For professional working people use next

And for expert working people who charge fortune for project to give optimum experience use react.
Cause eventually you will building a small framework that has only things you need

[alfathizha]

Use vite, if it's just a single page, never use CRA

[BeeBeeEight]

I get that NextJS is the hot favorite in town right now, but Remix seems like a strong competitor.

[VigneshGawali]

Should u learn react then nextjs or go directly for nextjs

[Sporadics]

..."I think the question is should I be writing create react app or next js?"...I spent the past two days thinking about this and I'm beginning to think again I suck at coding cos most video resource are not answering the right question and you just asked just that and also answered. Thank you so much for this!

[felipefs]

what about Astro? seems much more flexible

[mr-moses-]

Just alone, react library is just for state managment...
Isn't right sir ?

[anthonysmith]

I don’t understand why CRA is always described by saying “single page application”. You can have more than one page with CRA. Why do people say this?

[artemzakunts]

But I can’t learn NextJs without knowledge of React?