Is Next.js 13 + RSC a Good Choice? I Built an App Without Client-Side Javascript to Find Out

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    Typescript toolkit on top of Prisma ORM, offering flexible and declarative Access Control Policy(Authorization/Permission) for RBAC/ABAC/PBAC/ReBAC with auto-generated type-safe APIs and frontend hooks.

  • ZenStack for automatic enforcement of access control. ZenStack is a toolkit that extends Prisma ORM to allow you to model access policies and data schema in one place.

  • redwood

    The App Framework for Startups

  • Next.js 13 ignited the first wave of attention to React Server Components (RSC) around the end of last year. Over time, other frameworks, like Remix and RedwoodJS, have also started to put RSC into their future road maps. However, the entire "moving computation to the server-side" direction of React/Next.js has been highly controversial from the very beginning.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • bcrypt.js

    Optimized bcrypt in plain JavaScript with zero dependencies.

  • The created boilerplate code uses Discord provider for authentication. I've changed it to use credentials instead (using bcryptjs for hashing passwords):

  • docs-tutorial-nextjs

    Tutorial for Next.js

  • Here are my thoughts about the benefits and challenges from a retrospection on how I built this toy app (compared to how it was implemented with the traditional "pages" route).

  • create-t3-app

    The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app

  • My favorite way of creating a new Next.js app has always been using create-t3-app.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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