Comment by cersa8

Do I live in a parallel universe where building SSR/SPA sites with Next.js is somehow incredibly complex? I know below the abstractions there is complexity, but building SSR rendered SPA's today with something like Next.js has never been more simple. I think web development has taken a huge leap forward where we now have stable tooling, a strongly typed language with TypeScript and top notch boilerplate free state management with MobX. To top it off you can write performant backend API's in Node.js with again TypeScript sharing contracts (Interfaces) between backend and frontend. I for one am really happy with the current state of affairs.