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Next.js is infuriating - Hacker News

9/2/2025Updated 3/23/2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099922

EDIT: Gave it another try and more issues appear, within seconds of using. The left side has a rendering bug where the selected areas are cut off sometimes, ctrl+zoom does not zoom the page as it does on all normal websites. I can still zoom via menu. Middle mouse open link in new tab doesn't work. Z layer bugs everywhere. I expect more the longer I'd look. … blinkbat 6 months ago ... After a week of futzing with it I just threw up my hands and said 'no can do'. I couldn't untangle the spaghetti JS and piles of libraries. 'Compiling' would complete and if you looked at the output it was clearly missing tons of bits but never threw an error. Just tons of weirdness from the toolchain to the deployment platform. … Framework-defined infrastructure is a seriously cool and interesting idea, but nowadays Next feels more like an Infrastructure-defined framework; the Vercel platform's architecture and design are why things in Next are the way they are. It was supposed to be "Vercel adapts to Next", but instead we got four different kinds of subtly different function runtimes. My usage dashboard says my two most-used things are "Fluid Active CPU" and "ISR Writes". I just pay them $20/mo and pray none of those usages go over 100% because I wouldn't have the first clue why I'm going over if it does.

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