Railway's Frontend Migration from Next.js to Vite + TanStack Router
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Summary
Railway migrated their entire production frontend from Next.js to Vite + TanStack Router, including their dashboard, canvas, and railway.com website. The migration was completed in just two pull requests with zero downtime. While Next.js served them well initially and helped scale to millions of users, it eventually became unsuitable for their product needs. The article details their migration process, technical decisions, and lessons learned from moving away from Next.js.
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Next.js served us well. Then it didn't.
Next.js got railway.com from zero to a production app serving millions of users monthly. It's an excellent framework, but it stopped being the right one for our product
we shipped the migration in two PRs with zero downtime
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