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I stick with backend development personally, but I will say that their new Server Actions look super handy for quick development. We've used TRPC for that currently and will probably continue to do so, but I really like the concept if you're keeping your API purely isolated to your web app. The fully stack type safety and communication wrapping seems great.

How does this offering (and other serverless postgres) do when there is a ton of data and read/write happening? In my case the most data I've dealt with had a few tens of billions of records.

I haven't really worked on small-ish scale things until starting to work on my startup.

I've always depended on managed postgres, and I use Go for all my services. I don't really have any experience using things like Vercel that combine UI + some kind of backend.

Are these technologies meant for use on "large" platforms or are they mainly targeted towards small / hobby SaaS? Would love to know more!

The general direction React (+ Next) is going worries me a bit at times. I might be too conservative, but I want my JS on the frontend and not hot loaded from the server. For this reason I'm much more excited about Vite/Bun/Dino/etc. Also thank god for shit like Preact.

Really not interesting for us. Makes what’s simple simpler and what’s hard harder. Sure for a quick prototype website with 10min only that would help, but any decently sized app that needs auth/localization/high performance in memory/offline/optimistic updates/batch fetching … all become way harder. It feels like react unchained from Meta’s constraints and it looses its appeal.

It's hard to take Vercel at face value these days with all of these improvements and announcements. Are we supposed to - in hindsight - understand that odd version numbers of their codebase were really just unstable releases all along? The app server implementation wasn't really meant to be used because it was an experimental release?

I'm having a difficult time not being salty about this entire situation. There are basic production requirements that haven't been addressed for years because their hosting platform provides it. You don't like the way they do logging? Sounds like you need an attitude adjustment.