Comparing Next.js to Other Alternatives
Learn about various web development frameworks and the advantages of Next.js over others.
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As we may be wondering, Next.js is not the only player in the server-side rendered JavaScript world. However, alternatives might be considered depending on the final purpose of a project.
Gatsby
One popular alternative is Gatsby. We may consider this framework if we seek to build static websites. Unlike Next.js, Gatsby only supports static site generation and does it incredibly well. Every page is pre-rendered at build time and can be served on any content delivery network (CDN) as a static asset, allowing the performance to be incredibly competitive compared to dynamically server-side rendered alternatives.
The biggest downside of using Gatsby over Next.js is that we’ll lose the ability of dynamic server-side rendering, which is an important feature for building more dynamically data-driven and complex websites.
Less popular than Next.js, Razzle is a tool for creating server-side rendered JavaScript applications. It aims to maintain the ease of use of create-react-app while abstracting all the complex configurations needed for rendering the application both on the server and client sides. The most significant advantage of using ...
