I’ve been using Next.js for a while, and don't get me wrong, the App Router is incredibly powerful for certain use cases. But for my recent side project (a heavily interactive UI with a custom Go backend), I felt like I was fighting the framework more than actually writing code. I was constantly overthinking client vs. server boundaries and wrestling with hydration errors. Finally, I just scrapped it, spun up a standard Vite + React SPA, threw in React Query, and honestly... it felt amazing. No mental overhead, just pure UI building and simple API calls to my backend. Am I the only one feeling a bit of "framework fatigue" lately? For those of you building personal projects or SaaS tools right now, are you defaulting to the Next.js ecosystem, or keeping it simple with a standard SPA? submitted by /u/Scary_Dot9587 [link] [comments]