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We've come to the point that being able to run code and render html on a server is considered a new feature (aka SSR and serverless functions). I recently watched the Next.js conf and i couldn't help but giggle.

-Do you want functions?

Use our proprietary platform

-Do you want to store content?

Use cloudinary, aws

- Authentication?

Auth0,firebase

- Database?

Use FaunaDb and our super cool new query language that nobody knows and cares about.

> Congratulations. You've built your new webapp on Jamstack. Now you have to manage large bills across hundreds of 3rd party services, vendor lock-ins. Also good luck trying to reproduce all that on a development machine or organize your code.

On the other hand you can just: laravel new project-name --jet and deploy on a single linux machine or heroku and you get:

-Robust and customizable Auth, password reset, 2fa

-A serious db like PostgreSQL and an orm

-SSR by default with 0kb bundle size!

-Any css tool you need

-Easy APIs, tokens and permissions

-Truly open source.You have full control of your code and data

So yeah it's just a command but yikes, who uses PHP in 2020, right?



Exactly! FaunaDB was the recent topic of discussion and I was like oh here we go again...

> So yeah it's just a command but yikes, who uses PHP in 2020, right?

Lol yeah, but PHP 8 is looking really nice


> Now you have to manage large bills across hundreds of 3rd party services, vendor lock-ins.

A nightmare.

That said, I don't see any major problems in using Next with a monolithic BE. It's a viable tool to get things done.




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