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One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on

As I’ve been using Next.js professionally on my employer’s web app, I find the core design of their App Router and React Server Components (RSC) to be extremely frustrating. And it’s not small bugs or that the API is confusing, but large disagreements about the fundamental design decisions that Vercel and the React team made when building it.

The more webdev events I go to, the more I see people who dislike Next.js, but still get stuck using it. By the end of this article, I will share how me and my colleagues escaped this hell, seamlessly migrating our entire frontend to TanStack Start.

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