Moving away from Vite.

[kinngh]

This post follows up talking about major rewrite to repo that's available here

While the Next.js x Prisma boilerplate has been getting consistent and better updates, I'm a little stuck on Vite side of things to bring the latest and the greatest to this boilerplate. I'm going to keep this on point, configuring Vite to play well with ngrok has been a challenge, to say the least. With the amount of issues that happen because of port mismatch in dev mode, it's hard to keep up and with migrations to AppBridge CDN, I want to take a major step forward and completely eliminate Vite from this repository.

What I instead like to propose is Express with Next.js. This means you get to bring in all of your knowledge of Express, and instead of having to use plan old React, you can now leverage React with Next.js and bring on improvements to your workflow that comes with Next.js. You can read more about how that'd look here.

Why is this better?

• Exposure to Next.js means you can swap between serverful and serverless much more seamlessly.
• The heavy lifting of custom servers is done for you so you're writing your React and Express the way you've been writing so far.
• Long Term Support for updates on the repository.
• Migration guide.
• Better ecosystem. (some would debate on this, but ok)
• You're still deploying it like an Express app, instead of being limited(?) to Vercel.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this in the discussions below and would take a decision on October 15th, 2023 on migrations.

👍 -> Migrate to Next + Express
👎 -> Stay on React + Vite + Express