Netlify deploys hundreds of thousands of Next.js sites – here's what challenging

A note about this moment We actually sat on this post for a while, taking time to figure out how best to present the facts and suggestions below, without it appearing as a takedown post. After all, we are in competition with Vercel in the platform space. Then, the recent security incident around Next.js middleware happened, triggering a small fire on social and drawing criticism about how the incident was handled. This article is not about that security incident. Rather, it is about the larger context of the current challenges in making sure Next.js runs as intended for customers. Many of these — as well as, arguably, the incident response — are related to the closed nature of how Next.js is maintained. But there is now an honest effort by everyone to tackle this problem. Our aim here is to provide a better picture of the challenges, and draft a path for collaboration going forward. Re-introducing Next.js Next.js is an open-source web development framework, created and governed b ... Read full article.