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.NET vs Next.js: What are the differences?
What is .NET? A free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.
What is Next.js? *A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps *. Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.
.NET and Next.js can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by .NET are:
- Multiple languages: You can write .NET apps in C#, F#, or Visual Basic.
- Cross Platform: Whether you're working in C#, F#, or Visual Basic, your code will run natively on any compatible OS.
- Consistent API & Libraries: To extend functionality, Microsoft and others maintain a healthy package ecosystem built on .NET Standard.
On the other hand, Next.js provides the following key features:
- Zero setup. Use the filesystem as an API
- Only JavaScript. Everything is a function
- Automatic server rendering and code splitting
"Tight integration with visual studio" is the primary reason why developers consider .NET over the competitors, whereas "Automatic server rendering and code splitting" was stated as the key factor in picking Next.js.
.NET and Next.js are both open source tools. It seems that Next.js with 38.7K GitHub stars and 4.69K forks on GitHub has more adoption than .NET with 11.1K GitHub stars and 2.4K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, .NET has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1566 company stacks & 239 developers stacks; compared to Next.js, which is listed in 82 company stacks and 69 developer stacks.
We choose Next.js for our React framework because it's very minimal and has a very organized file structure. Also, it offers key features like zero setups, automatic server rendering and code splitting, typescript support. Our app requires some loading time to process the video, server-side rendering will allow our website to display faster than client-side rending.
I was considering focusing on learning RoR and looking for a work that uses those techs.
After some investigation, I decided to stay with C# .NET:
It is more requested on job positions (7 to 1 in my personal searches average).
It's been around for longer.
it has better documentation and community.
One of Ruby advantages (its amazing community gems, that allows to quickly build parts of your systems by merely putting together third party components) gets quite complicated to use and maintain in huge applications, where building and reusing your own components may become a better approach.
Rail's front end support is starting to waver.
C# .NET code is far easier to understand, debug and maintain. Although certainly not easier to learn from scratch.
Though Rails has an excellent programming speed, C# tends to get the upper hand in long term projects.
I would avise to stick to rails when building small projects, and switching to C# for more long term ones.
Opinions are welcome!
We’re a new startup so we need to be able to deliver quick changes as we find our product market fit. We’ve also got to ensure that we’re moving money safely, and keeping perfect records. The technologies we’ve chosen mix mature but well maintained frameworks like Django, with modern web-first and api-first front ends like GraphQL, NextJS, and Chakra. We use a little Golang sparingly in our backend to ensure that when we interact with financial services, we do so with statically compiled, strongly typed, and strictly limited and reviewed code.
You can read all about it in our linked blog post.
Pros of .NET
- Tight integration with visual studio261
- Stable code250
- Great community180
- Reliable and strongly typed server side language.171
- Microsoft132
- Fantastic documentation108
- Great 3rd party libraries82
- Speedy71
- Great azure integration65
- Great support57
- Highly productive25
- Linq24
- High Performance23
- Great programming languages (C#, VB)22
- C#21
- Open source19
- Powerful ORM (EntityFramework)13
- Powerful Web application framework (ASP.NET MVC)13
- Clean markup with razor13
- Fast11
- Visual studio + Resharper = <39
- Constantly improving to keep up with new trends9
- Dependency injection8
- TFS7
- Job opportunities6
- High-Performance6
- Integrated and Reliable6
- Security6
- Huge ecosystem and communities5
- Light-weight5
- Lovely4
- Variations4
- Scaffolding3
- Support and SImplicity3
- {get; set;}3
- Asynchrony3
- Concurrent3
- Useful IoC3
- Default Debuging tools2
- Entity framework2
- Blazor1
Pros of Next.js
- Automatic server rendering and code splitting26
- Built with React20
- Easy setup18
- Zero setup16
- Universal JavaScript15
- TypeScript11
- Static site generator7
- Simple deployment6
- Frictionless development6
- Just JavaScript5
- Incremental static regeneration5
- Filesystem as an API5
- Testing4
- Everything is a function4
- Isomorphic React applications4
- Well Documented3
- Has many examples and integrations2
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Cons of .NET
- C#9
- Too expensive to deploy and maintain9
- Microsoft itself7
- Microsoft dependable systems6
- Hard learning curve3
- Not have a full fledged visual studio for linux1
Cons of Next.js
- Structure is weak compared to Angular(2+)2