
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Interesting to see folks from Vercel reacting to my post[1] with "I don't think there's anything I could say that would make them change their mind about Next.js 🤷",* when the specific thing I highlight that should *absolutely* change minds is comparative data*.
Data like this:
[1]: https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
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- A chart I derived from the 2024 Web Almanac data showing CWV pass rates before and after the INP rollout. In general, tools with lighter default payloads (Astro, Rails) started better and (importantly) were less likely to regress as a result of INP's introduction. Or put another way, React-burdened stacks (Next.js, Next.js w/ App Router, and Gatsby) started with less than 50% pass rates and regressed the most when fairer, more representative metrics were added. (remote)