React, connected to reality. SSR, routing, streaming — when it carries weight and when it overdoes things.
Category · Frontend & UI
React with infrastructure.
Next.js is the framework that makes React production-ready. It solves the things React deliberately leaves open: routing, server-side rendering (SSR), static generation, streaming, data fetching, caching and bundling — as one coherent system.
With the App Router, components run on the server by default and ship finished HTML; only what needs to be interactive is sent to the browser.
When it earns its keep.
When content has to be visible fast and indexable in search engines at the same time — for the portals, shops or municipal platforms we build and operate. SSR and clean caching deliver measurably better load times and SEO here than a pure single-page app.
When it overdoes it.
Next.js brings complexity and a Node server into operations. For a small internal web app with no SEO requirement and no server rendering, a static React setup is often enough. You have to understand the caching layers, or you'll be debugging ghosts.