Engineer and AI Rebuild Next.js on Vite in One Week, Creating Faster Framework
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Summary
An engineer and AI model rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week, creating 'vinext' - a drop-in replacement built on Vite that deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command. The new framework builds production apps up to 4x faster, produces client bundles up to 57% smaller, and cost about $1,100 to develop. It's already being used by customers in production environments.
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The result, vinext (pronounced 'vee-next'), is a drop-in replacement for Next.js, built on Vite, that deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.
In early benchmarks, it builds production apps up to 4x faster and produces client bundles up to 57% smaller.
The whole thing cost about $1,100.
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