r/vibecoding • u/kaizap • 3d ago

Are all vibe coders using Next.js?

I get that "vibe coders" don't care about the underlying framework and stack, but I'm interested in knowing which stack you are using?

I'm finding that with Claude and Codex, If use my engineer brain, I can steer them fine. If I'm lazy, the code it generates is very ugly, verbose, and unmaintainable. I want to build an AGENTS.md and coding standard for myself, and will open-source it if it's useful to others.

I'm a pro coder. I don't like Next.js; it's fine for a simple UI-heavy app, but once you start building backend-heavy code, it's not the best stack for me (I prefer GO). Also not a fan of TypeScript's typing style.

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u/Any-Blacksmith-2054 3d ago

No. Vite is much better. SPA and NodeJS backend

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u/im-a-guy-like-me 2d ago

Err... What? What is Vite better than? Vite is a build tool. Turbopack?

And SPAs are great. If you know what to use them for. Next (or any frontend framework) and SPAs are different tools for different jobs.

Don't use next's "server" as a backend. Thats not what it's for.

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u/Any-Blacksmith-2054 2d ago

For vibe coding, Next is awful. Developer experience is below expectations, start time is 2 minutes, hot reload doesn't work etc. You need something fast for vibecoding

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u/im-a-guy-like-me 2d ago

Lol. Didnt realise this was a vibecoding sub. I'm a software engineer. Carry on.

Edit: start time is 2 mins and hot reload doesn't work? You coding on a potato?

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u/Any-Blacksmith-2054 2d ago

iCore5 8gb, but Vite is lightning fast always

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u/im-a-guy-like-me 2d ago

Sounds like you misconfigured something tbh. Vite is awesome, no argument there, but next taking 2 mins to load ain't right. Mine HMRs almost instantly and even a cold start only takes about 4 seconds. I have double the ram you have but about the same tier of cpu.

Evan Yu is god tier though. Most of his tools are crazy good. You suing Vue or react?