id watch the conference video today. vite may seem simpler at first glance but managing everything and headers and rewrites and webpack and etc its really not easier.

tbh I don't know what a webpack is outside of googling it. I was able to watch the first hour of the conference thankfully and still felt unsure and wanted to ask here. it makes sense that since Next can handle so much singlehandedly, it would be the first choice... but on the other hand, that is a lot to learn up front, which could be too much for a junior dev to manage alone, no?

No more than learning any other framework. vite is still a framework.

how can they be equally difficult if vite is almost purely react but next has so many next-specific features? genuinely asking

read my statement above. all the stuff you will have to do to try to get the extra features you absolutely will need already exist with next.
So the time you think you saved in one area you just spent in another.

It really depends on the app being built

If it’s feasible for a junior or not

Anything with the realm of blogs, storefronts, integrating with a cms, and some advanced crud should be feasible

But you could be a super star after 6 months of a boot camp or still just learning

I’ll say this though

If you’re building an app as a freelance thing or a something along those lines

Quadruple your time estimate

For how long it will take you to ship it

Guys I am also a junior trying to build an e-commerce application.

I have encountered an unexpected behaviour can you guys help ?

I have created a post on it with the bug I encountered

Kinda weird to go into another persons thread and ask for totally unrelated help.

Rude in fact.

Sorry I will follow the guidelines I was just curious

thank you @linesofcode for all your insights! I certainly have a ton of work cut out for me no matter how I look at it. the app is massive, and I was a bit surprised that the scope of something so large would be entrusted to me. it's supposed to be scalable, so even though i'm on my own, i'm making ERDs, wireframe mockups, workflows, and tech designs to begin with and planning out the stack as carefully as i can with my limited experience. thankfully the person asking me to ship this is also a dev and fully aware of my my background and just doesn't have the time to do it on their own LOL

from everyone's input here, it seems like the safest thing would be to make a test-run deploy of a basic nextjs app and watch my timeline, note the pain points, and go from there with this production-ready site

thanks so much!

Nice, it seems like you got a solid plan

Good luck with this and don’t hesitate to ask on this discord for questions