Migrating from React to Next.js - My Experience
Hey everyone, I recently spent the last two weekends migrating my main portfolio project from vanilla React (Create React App) to Next.js 14.
At first, the App Router concept was super confusing because I was so used to react-router-dom. But once it clicked, it felt like magic! Server-side rendering actually dropped my initial load time from 1.2s down to barely 300ms.
Has anyone else made the switch recently? I'd love to know what your biggest hurdles were and if you prefer the Pages router or the App router!
At first, the App Router concept was super confusing because I was so used to react-router-dom. But once it clicked, it felt like magic! Server-side rendering actually dropped my initial load time from 1.2s down to barely 300ms.
Has anyone else made the switch recently? I'd love to know what your biggest hurdles were and if you prefer the Pages router or the App router!