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"Battling Development Tools and Frustrations with Next.js: A Day of Productivity Struggles"

Jan 29, 2024 - 10:09pmSummary: Today was a peculiar day that included exploring the Intention website and considering the best approaches to development, amid a struggle with the authentication process and frustrations with OAuth. Progress on a web app was achieved, despite dissatisfaction with its simplistic nature and a switch of rendering methods from React server-side to client back in the pages router, noting the app router's performance benefits. The experience with Next.js was more frustrating than anticipated, leading to doubts about its complexity and a desire for a simpler, more streamlined framework. The day was largely spent battling with development tools, an annoyance when trying to focus on productivity, with thoughts on potentially moving towards more server-side rendering and investigating React's streaming components for future enhancements.

Transcript: Before going to sleep, just going through the day, it was a strange one today. It was a weird getting back on the feet, but I guess that is a standard Monday thing, especially when you roll into the weekend of work as well. But I felt the energy coming back this evening, which is interesting. Noticed it last evening too, so maybe this is the time to do some work as well. And not worry about relaxing a bit in the middle of the day to basically repower up for the evening or something. And maybe it was food. Maybe it was food. So today was exploring the Intention website. And a lot of it was just kind of doing background thinking of like, what is the best way to approach this? And also being frustrated with authentication, generally speaking. It's just a bodge right now, unfortunately. And maybe OAuth is the way. Maybe OAuth actually works here quite well, I'm not sure. So yeah, at least the basics are up. It's just like really, it's really like baby's first web app, effectively. And at that, I am pretty unhappy with it. I initially was doing React server-side rendering, and then we moved it, I moved it all to client back in the pages router. And man, the app router is better, in my opinion. There are annoyances to it, but the app router is significantly better in terms of performance. And just like how the website feels to me. So I understand why it exists. And a lot of it was actually fighting with Next.js, unfortunately, too, which just left a bad taste in my mouth of like, this has gotten so complicated. Like there's gotta be a simpler web framework to work with that just like is React, client components, server components, and it flows together nicely without like gobs. Gobs and gobs of abstraction. So yeah, maybe finding myself towards the end of wanting to use Next.js. So we'll see. Just found the development experience a bit more frustrating than I expected. So yeah, it's mostly just like fighting with tools today, which is always like an annoying place to be when you're trying to just get something done and it's kind of the whole point of this is to stop fighting with tools. Yeah, trying to think of some new things and maybe, yeah, how to keep it more server-side rendered is another thing in the future. Just like querying is one thing, but like, yeah, I don't know. Maybe I need to look into streaming components and React server components, just directly how they are supposed to work and see what can be done. But yeah, that's that.

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