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

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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..
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.
Same reason why 90% of websites have serious UX issues and constant bugs. This and ad frameworks.