Next.js vs webapp2: What are the differences?
Developers describe Next.js as "*A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps *". Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications. On the other hand, webapp2 is detailed as "Lightweight Python web framework compatible with Google App Engine’s webapp". webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.
Next.js and webapp2 can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Next.js are:
- Zero setup. Use the filesystem as an API
- Only JavaScript. Everything is a function
- Automatic server rendering and code splitting
On the other hand, webapp2 provides the following key features:
- Compatible with webapp
- Compatible with latest WebOb
- Full-featured response object
Next.js is an open source tool with 38.7K GitHub stars and 4.69K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Next.js's open source repository on GitHub.