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Is Next.js Really Broken in 2025?

8/24/2025Updated 8/29/2025

Excerpt

So we had. Huge amount   of files we needed to transfer to the client. And now we have nearly 200,000 lines of code. {ts:589} And that got even worse, right? Even though it got better with the bundling mechanisms there,   but still Webpac wasn't an issue for us.

Source URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSq3_IOR004

Related Pain Points

Importing entire libraries instead of specific functions bloats bundle size

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Developers commonly import entire libraries when only needing single functions, pulling in 70+ kilobytes of unused code (e.g., lodash). Combined with full icon libraries, moment.js for dates, and analytics packages with unwanted dependencies, this significantly increases bundle size and degrades performance.

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