<story><title>Next.js 10</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamazizi</author><text>I understand this is a Vercel framework and probably a great distribution channel for new business and increasing overall revenue. But, I&amp;#x27;m a bit disappointed the &amp;quot;next&amp;quot; version is more about Vercel&amp;#x27;s own internal business agenda. Promoted as amazing &amp;quot;DX&amp;quot; is not really true. It had a better DX compared to the other tools, that&amp;#x27;s why it grew so popular, but not seeing anything real DX related in version &amp;quot;10&amp;quot;. Other tools are starting to do things a bit better.&lt;p&gt;Analytics, great idea, is a huge disappointment. It&amp;#x27;s just a Vercel thing and not NextJS, not to mention a &amp;quot;pro&amp;#x2F;enterprise&amp;quot; paid feature, not cheap either.&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I saw the YT videos of &amp;quot;future of Svelte&amp;quot; and that video was really about &amp;quot;DX&amp;quot; with no non-sense no BS that just focused on the real next evolution on web&amp;#x2F;app dev. That DX really resonated with me.&lt;p&gt;My opinion, I&amp;#x27;m not sold on NextJS 10, the &amp;quot;commercial&amp;quot; move kind of turned me off and scares me of platform lock-in, but I&amp;#x27;m getting more and more interested into Svelte (v4?) and I&amp;#x27;m seriously looking to switch to it from NextJS.&lt;p&gt;Note: &amp;quot;DX&amp;quot; stands for &amp;quot;Developer eXperience&amp;quot;, meaning how joyful, easy it is to get started with the tool and feeling productive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindrun</author><text>Whenever the Next.js + Vercel combo gains a new feature, Vercel ensures that it&amp;#x27;s available in standalone Next.js too – even when deployed to other providers.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s true for all the features mentioned in the Next.js 10 blog post: Image optimization, Internationalization, but also Analytics.&lt;p&gt;Since you mentioned the latter: Did you notice that we wrote a detailed documentation page about how to report those metrics to any service of your choice?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nextjs.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;advanced-features&amp;#x2F;measuring-performance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nextjs.org&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;advanced-features&amp;#x2F;measuring-performa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure, there&amp;#x27;s obviously a whole UI piece to this as well – but since you interact with Next.js programmatically and there&amp;#x27;s a quite sophisticated data storage that needs to back all of this as well, Vercel optionally provides you with a pre-built solution.&lt;p&gt;But again, to be clear: If you want to use Analytics + Next.js elsewhere, Next.js supports reporting them natively – even if not hosted on Vercel.</text></comment>
<story><title>Next.js 10</title><url>https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bamazizi</author><text>I understand this is a Vercel framework and probably a great distribution channel for new business and increasing overall revenue. But, I&amp;#x27;m a bit disappointed the &amp;quot;next&amp;quot; version is more about Vercel&amp;#x27;s own internal business agenda. Promoted as amazing &amp;quot;DX&amp;quot; is not really true. It had a better DX compared to the other tools, that&amp;#x27;s why it grew so popular, but not seeing anything real DX related in version &amp;quot;10&amp;quot;. Other tools are starting to do things a bit better.&lt;p&gt;Analytics, great idea, is a huge disappointment. It&amp;#x27;s just a Vercel thing and not NextJS, not to mention a &amp;quot;pro&amp;#x2F;enterprise&amp;quot; paid feature, not cheap either.&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I saw the YT videos of &amp;quot;future of Svelte&amp;quot; and that video was really about &amp;quot;DX&amp;quot; with no non-sense no BS that just focused on the real next evolution on web&amp;#x2F;app dev. That DX really resonated with me.&lt;p&gt;My opinion, I&amp;#x27;m not sold on NextJS 10, the &amp;quot;commercial&amp;quot; move kind of turned me off and scares me of platform lock-in, but I&amp;#x27;m getting more and more interested into Svelte (v4?) and I&amp;#x27;m seriously looking to switch to it from NextJS.&lt;p&gt;Note: &amp;quot;DX&amp;quot; stands for &amp;quot;Developer eXperience&amp;quot;, meaning how joyful, easy it is to get started with the tool and feeling productive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erokar</author><text>I feel the same way. We&amp;#x27;ve switched from React to Svelte at work. Going back to React would be a step backwards for us, so much feels needlessly overengineered with awkward APIs. React was a great improvement on Angular, but luckily things are still moving forward.</text></comment>