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My comment is probably not super helpful, but after several years in javascript land I found myself exhausted by the churn and constant rapid change. I've found myself really happy to be using the PETAL stack (Phoenix Elixir Tailwind Alpine LiveView) where the pace is a lot slower. There are now similar options in Rails (Hotwire) and Laravel (LiveWire), and probably others. If you haven't heard of those, it's definitely worth a look. The only situations in which I don't use them now are when there's a need for rich offline functionality. I still have several static sites in Next.js that I'll leave in place but I've been a lot happier since shifting my bulk to PETAL. (I'm also close to replacing my last big WordPress site with an Elixir one!! Knock on wood.)


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