I Stopped Using Next.js — Here's The Stack I Use Instead

I need to tell you about the worst debugging session of my life. Three hours. A production bug. Users couldn't check out. Revenue bleeding by the minute. The bug was in our data fetching layer. Somewhere between a Server Component, a Server Action, and a client component that needed the same data — something had broken. I couldn't tell where the data was loading. I couldn't tell what was running on the server and what was running on the client. I couldn't even reproduce it locally. Three hours of staring at Next.js App Router code that I had written myself — and I genuinely could not understand what it was doing. That was the day I started looking for something else. I Used to Love Next.js Let me be clear about something before I tell you what I switched to. Next.js is not bad. It's genuinely impressive engineering. The team at Vercel has built something remarkable — React Server Components, Server Actions, automatic code splitting, image optimization, a deployment experience that is s