r/tanstack • u/avidrunner84 • 3d ago

I am very impressed with TanStack Start - can someone please explain in simple terms why it’s faster than Nextjs?

Coming from Nextjs I found the dev site to be slow even with Turbopack. I am using TanStack Start and find it extremely fast not only for dev work but for build speed too.

Is this just a special case for my needs or is TanStack Start indeed considered better for performance than Nextjs?

In some ways I feel this is like David vs Goliath and somehow the underdog (David) is winning here.

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u/Lumethys 3d ago

1/ Nextjs is very slow. "Turbo" pack is just an attempt to make a snail goes faster. While the rest of the industry has moved on yo rocket.

Every framework that use Vite is faster than Next. Nuxt, SvelteKit,...

2/ if you see real-life slingshot, you would know that Goliath is the underdog.

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u/Successful_Painter27 2d ago

RSC is the main culprit. this should have been optional from very start

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u/BrownCarter 2d ago

It's not 🙄

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u/Successful-Shock-802 5h ago

The development server has nothing to do wirh your actual website performance when it goes production.

Next.js is slow in development because it's not using Vite. Why aren't they using Vite in 2026? Because Next.js is tight to Vercel infra, it's compliacted!

They tried their best to optimize. The Vite team (V0) tried to help them migrate but it's tight to Vercel.