vinext
Shares rank 40 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Free MIT-licensed Next.js reimplementation on Vite by Cloudflare, seen as competitive pressure on Vercel. Main caveat: critics say it is too new and not a true drop-in replacement.
Free MIT-licensed Next.js reimplementation on Vite by Cloudflare, seen as competitive pressure on Vercel. Main caveat: critics say it is too new and not a true drop-in replacement.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 41%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
AI-generated code quality criticized
“CloudFlare's slop NextJS project is still going though.”
Comment from 19 Jun 2026 in “Fable Converted Pylint to Rust” “the ai slop pr absolutely butchers the fix”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” “despite how absolutely dogshit it is”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 in “EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security” Too new to trust in production
“For many of us, that makes vinext a non-choice, unless we choose to develop for vinext from the beginning.”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” “no one is going to migrate their production app to a "one week old project"”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” Server and startup reliability problems
“Node.js production server (vinext start) works for testing but is less complete than Workers deployment.”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” “the end result is it entirely failed to start”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| vinextThis page | 7 | 10 | 41% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
15 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it already uses Workers Cache for the route-level ISR cache”
“CloudFlare's slop NextJS project is still going though.”
“I'm using it in a few production projects now with minimal issues.”
“I could see Vinext being successful if they keep at it”
“despite how absolutely dogshit it is”
“the existence of vinext, even if no one moves to it, keeps Vercel more honest than a world without it”
“God speed to the poor souls that have to make it actually work in the long run”
“Changing the definition of drop-in definitely has me concerned and makes me not take this any seriously”
“For many of us, that makes vinext a non-choice, unless we choose to develop for vinext from the beginning.”
“no one is going to migrate their production app to a "one week old project"”
“It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone.”
“the end result is it entirely failed to start”
“Node.js production server (vinext start) works for testing but is less complete than Workers deployment.”
“the ai slop pr absolutely butchers the fix”
“The rewrite looks incredibly naive.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.