Next.js is having its PHP moment.
In the early 2010s, a large number of new developers picked up PHP because it was easy to build things with it. Not all PHP devs wrote bad code, but a lot of bad code was written by PHP devs who were rolling their own ORMs / auth / sql adapters. It's taken a decade+ to shake that reputation.
Similarly, a lot of new devs are adopting Next.js, because it's easy to ship something quickly, because a lot of boilerplates use Next, because a lot of tutorials are written for Next. And a LOT of those tutorials are written by people who themselves are new to the field and don't know what the hell they are doing.
Obviously, not all Next devs write bad code, nor is it only solo devs using Next. Next is used by PayPal & Twilio & Nike & Spotify & OpenAI & Netflix & Hulu & yes even Replit, I'm hearing. But also a lot of vibe coders and shipfasters who are more interested in getting something out quickly than writing secure code.
So every CVE is going to be a big deal, and Next.js will likely face the same unfair reputation problem PHP did. The framework itself isn't bad - it's the influx of inexperienced developers building production apps without understanding any fundamentals.
The question is: will Next.js shake this reputation faster than PHP did, or are we in for a decade of "lol Next.js" jokes at conferences?
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