What has been your experience using NextJS + Tauri? #6083
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Hello! I'm looking to start a new Tauri project. I'm wondering whether I should use NextJS or React. I've used both for personal projects, but I notice that NextJS runs a lot slower in development mode. How has your experience been with Tauri + NextJS? Does it take a long time to start up? Does HMR work well? Would love to hear your thoughts! |
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Yes, just like in a standalone nextjs app, it's just a heavy dev environment, and it uses webpack (i'm not taking turbopack into account yet) which is also pretty slow.
Yes, Tauri isn't any different from any normal browser in that regard. The main problem imo with nextjs in a tauri app, is its SSR-first nature. For nextjs to work in tauri you need to use its SSG mode ( Personally i just go with vite + react, but i also prefer react-router (or similar) over file-based routers like the one in nextjs, so take that with a grain of salt i guess. |
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There's also TanStack router which is a lot more TypeScript friendly. I think a big advantage of nextjs is the automatic lazyfication of routes which has zero value in a desktop application. A 100mb page is terrible but a desktop app occupying 10x that much space in RAM is meh (most of your users won't notice it and even if they did, probably wouldn't care). So the problems nextjs is trying to solve aren't necessarily an advantage for tauri apps. |
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Is anyone building a nextjs app and a tauri app with nextjs and can tell something about the devflow and dx? |
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still no info about using ssr? |
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Like in my other comment, SSR doesn't work in Tauri because there is no nodejs runtime, nothing will change about that anytime soon. So if nextjs + SSR is a must you may be able to bundle your nextjs app via pkg as a sidecar. |
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Yes, just like in a standalone nextjs app, it's just a heavy dev environment, and it uses webpack (i'm not taking turbopack into account yet) which is also pretty slow.
Yes, Tauri isn't any different from any normal browser in that regard.
The main problem imo with nextjs in a tauri app, is its SSR-first nature. For nextjs to work in tauri you need to use its SSG mode (
next export) which can get a bit annoying at times.Personally i just go with vite + react, but i also prefer react-router (or similar) over file-based routers like the one in nextjs, so take that with a grain of salt i guess.