Fullstack agency, basement.studio, explains their observations migrating a large scale React-based website from Gatsby to Next.js. “Why migrate a perfectly functioning website to a new framework? Will the end user benefit from all this, or is it just to satisfy the development team?” We recently helped a client work through this decision process during a redesign of their entire web experience. With more than 30 static pages, around 600 dynamic pages, and 15 language translations for all of those, our client's codebase at the time was filled with plugins, escape hatches, and unbearable build times. The more we talked with the development team, the more we agreed that as part of the redesign, a better developer experience (DX), faster build times, and versatile APIs would put developers in a “pit of success” that would lead to faster iteration cycles and therefore to a better website for end users.…