Tech Blog
AnyMind Group
Sep 29, 2021
[Tech Blog] React vs. NextJS — Front-end frameworks compared
Hello, my name is Youssef, I am a front-end developer in AnyMind's AnyFactory team and in this blog I'd like to discuss the differences between working with React.js and Next.js. Both of which we use here at AnyMind.
React has been around since 2013 and was developed internally at Facebook. Next.js' initial release was in 2016 as an open source project. Perhaps calling both of them a front-end framework is a bit of a misnomer. React.js is more of a javascript library and Next.js is more of a React based development framework. A bit like comparing a knif