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bundie 1d ago

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under two

https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs

Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js

We migrated

Railway Blog

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maccard 1d ago

It’s absolutely mind boggling to me that we have gotten to a point that building a web frontend takes longer than compiling the Linux kernel..

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Hamuko 1d ago

As a non-frontend developer mainly observing and touching something here and there, a lot of the things that frontend developers do seem vastly over-engineered.

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thibran

Isn't the main problem that the building blocks the modern web is based on are not a good fit for what we do with it?

CSS is a total mess. HTML is a mess. JS is okay, but is not a high quality language.

We would save so much time and money if we would have a modern base to build on. Sadly this will probably never happen, because company interests will try to corrupt the process and therefore destroy it.