You should know this before choosing Next.js

1. Q.js

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   All-In-One Front-End Web Framework from Qbix, alternative to jQuery, Angular, Vue, Ember etc. (by Qbix)

   

   I have been building a completely open-source platform for hosting your own complex web applications.

   And I just recently open-sourced the JS framework. It loads modules on-demand as you need them. It’s supposed to be an all-in-one alternative to React+Redux, Angular etc.

   https://github.com/Qbix/Q.js

   Feedback would be welcome. I do want to start promoting it but it’s still early days.

2. SurveyJS

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   JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

   

3. create-react-app

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   Set up a modern web app by running one command.

   

   I could totally see how you'd arrive there. Backstory:

   create-react was a starter boilerplate for React built and maintained by Facebook. This was when webpack was the standard and just getting a local development environment to "hello world" for React could be challenging.[1]

   That project was depreciated and the popularity of the Next.js site framework for react projects (plus I certainly assume heavy lobbying from Vercel) pushed the react docs to officially suggest create-next as the new starting point.[2]

   Note that there are many other ways to start a react project and there are also many react projects that don't use or need Nextjs. (I use react quite a bit but I pair it with Astro.js, for example.)

   I would say that a lightweight Vite template is really all you need for a lot of early success with a local environment for learning / building with React.

   [1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app

4. Next.js

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   The React Framework

   

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