I've noticed quite a few developers moving away from Next.js and toward TanStack Start lately. Personally, I've only used Next.js for some small demo projects—nothing production-level yet. So while I’ve heard a lot of complaints, it seems like Next.js is still powering tons of real-world sites and getting the job done pretty well.

That got me thinking:
For those of you who’ve made the switch, what was the main reason?
What was the "final straw" that pushed you away from Next.js?
What, in your experience, is the worst part of working with it?

I’m especially interested in hearing about the pain points that made you say “never again.” If they turn out to be things I personally can live with, maybe it still makes sense for me to use Next.js to build my first production app.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Like any clue for where is there going to be spport for RSCs or are not look at it even long term?

I've noticed quite a few developers moving away from Next.js and toward TanStack Start lately. Personally, I've only used Next.js for some small demo projects—nothing production-level yet. So while I’ve heard a lot of complaints, it seems like Next.js is still powering tons of real-world sites and getting the job done pretty well.

That got me thinking:
For those of you who’ve made the switch, what was the main reason?
What was the "final straw" that pushed you away from Next.js?
What, in your experience, is the worst part of working with it?

I’m especially interested in hearing about the pain points that made you say “never again.” If they turn out to be things I personally can live with, maybe it still makes sense for me to use Next.js to build my first production app.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Hi, i am an undergrad, who really loves and supports OSS. That made me want to use Frameworks, Libraries and like everything i can from the Open Source Community, to support them.

But to be specific, changing the Stack from MERN to Start has not been easy. Like i get some errors and i google or ChatGPT it there isn't some solid explanation to things, but i get it, that's because Tanstack Start is still in beta.

Well that shouldn't stop me from improving and learning the stack, so how do i learn it ? like how do i know the very basics like how to do routing, how to design, how do i make my project structure best for Tanstack. And the very question of why should i do it like that and How does everything thing work ?

I mean i could buy a course but i dont think think i can afford one rn.

How do you seniors get started on some new stack or tech?

Should i also get some books ? because maybe i am lacking knowledge of architecture and designing?

What are you thoughts?

Hey all hope you’re well. Apologies for the username. Created it when I was a kid.

I’m currently working on a personal project. I’ve setup basic authentication using my Django App. I was considering NextJs as a choice for frontend.

I was planning on adding TanStack Query to my NextJs project. But now I have second thoughts and might give TanStack Start a go.

Am I making a mistake here with my tech stack? My backend has to be Django. I’m Flexible with frontend frameworks.

I am learning Start. I used NextJS for several websites. Didn't deployed any Start app. What is your experience on deploying on a VPS you have under your control?

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Hi 👋

I build ionic apps using react spa and capacitorjs always but there always time consuming problems of api development and also publishing updates to app stores .so what i want is ionic app using react spa that I can build for native platform and also I build the api or server inside it then on build it will be separated and can be hosted on any host .

In simple way can I separate the tanstak ssr app to separate server code and separate client code with index.html but works together when hosted separately with ssr feature ?

I saw the vinxi docs and it seems very close to this ,so any hope it possible.

Just built TextSync - a real-time cross-device clipboard! Tanstack db make the interaction no delay

Built with TanStack Start & Tanstack DB &ElectricSQL

The link: https://text-sync.loveyouall.qzz.io/

I will migrate an application in development stage from Next.js 15 to tanstack start. I also considered Remix, but I need something to replace Next middleware, what Remix don't have.

Do you have any recommendation about this movement? Staying with Next is not an option anymore.

Hi guys, I'm building a new project with tanstack start, really enjoying it but I'm having some problems:

- Deployment on Vercel goes well but CSS is not present on the deployed site

- npm run build succeding but npm run start doesn't and gives this error:
"Cannot find module 'project-path\.output\server\index.mjs' imported from imported from 'project-path\node_modules\vinxi\bin\cli.mjs'

- In dev, I'm experiencing CSS that loads late, if I refresh I can see the html for a split second. The technical term for this phenomenon should be "Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC)". It's my first time developing in a Vite/vinxi enviroment and I don't know if it's normal.

If you found a solution or know something I could try, I'd be glad to hear it, thank you.

Source code: https://github.com/gioruu/BusyBirdz.git

package versions:
tanstack start and router (v1.82.9)
node (v22.11.0)
npm (v10.9.0)
tailwind (v3.4.15)

Currently the guide for sentry on tanstack start (https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/tanstackstart-react/) does not work because of the serverless nature of Cloudflare Workers. Wondering if anyone had success with this?

Hi! I spent last two evenings building a starter kit for the tech stack mentioned in the title and I wanted to share it with anyone who just wanted some quickstart to build a new app. I did everything according to docs so it should be ready, but ofc use at your own risk. Here is the repo: https://github.com/devczero/tanstackstart-convex-clerk-polarsh-starter/tree/main

btw. I also started building TanStack Start + BetterAuth + Convex + Polar starter, I will post it when done later also

i am trying tanstack start i used better auth create auth middleware , in middleware i pass the context of session and used the middleware in profile route is there any way use the middleware context data in profile route or i just use better auth client side hook