what I love about this series is how it combines the history and evolution of a problem so you can see very clearly why we ended up here, great work Tyler!

I’ve been a nextjs developer for the last year and I am blown away how developer friendly it is. Every feature is better than the last

Tyler, you're like a companion for all of us technologist overwhelmed and fatigued by the vast amount of technological desicions we have to make every day. Thank you!

You have a real gift for explaining complex topics simply...and coherently...and conceptually. You would make a fortune if you created a series on JS and frameworks.

I really like your videos, especially your most recent ones, which are more like storytelling. I feel like the programming videos on UKposts are mostly full of tutorials, and there are less videos which look at things from a higher-level perspective as these ones do. Awesome work

This is incredibly good. I think it's the first time ever that I took notes on a UKposts video that wasn't supposed to be a study subject. You packed SO MUCH VALUE in 12 minutes, I can tell the insane amount of research behind it. Honestly, I'm impressed. I think I might have a new favorite channel :D

Wow this was amazing! As a backend developer whose exposure to the JS world has unfortunately mostly been through complaints of how bad it is, this makes me want to fire up a Next.js application right away and get started with exploring this whole new world!

Your narration and the pace with which you provide us the information about the subject matter make these the best documentary series!

this video is so great. as a webdev novice who came through the coding bootcamp pipeline, feeling a bit bewildered about everything going on in the landscape of webdev, this gives an essential look at the history of "what" i've been doing and why i am doing it. new devs are exposed to so many different technologies and stacks nowadays that i feel most of us have no idea why we use one thing as opposed to another. this video definitely provides clarity to novices about what the thought within the webdev community as a whole has been that has lead us to this point. thanks you for this content!

Even though I started developping web stuff when I was 16 years old (I'm 21) it has always been hard for me to understand what every technology does, what problem it solves and how everything fits together. This video explains everything perfectly and I'm thankful I watched it. Thanks a lot !!

Your work and this series is a masterpiece! The amount of reserach and work that would go into making such videos would be insane... And then you present it with so well, great work man!!

I love NextJS for how simple iot makes sever-side rendering with getStaticProps and getServerSideProps. It's so intuitive. SWR is also great.

Awesome video! I've been a professional AngularJS then Angular developer for the past 10 years and I'm shifting towards NextJS because I really think this is the future of web apps. The simplicity of nextJS is just stunning, you don't have to create lambda functions and build an entire API gateway in AWS to get things going. Combining it with Prisma and PlanetScale is just absolutely amazing. We are also finally moving away from Redux and towards smart key-based stale-while-revalidate caching mechanisms that make the UI even faster and simplify the development further. Soo soo good! Best time to be a web dev!

Lovely content. You just keep on delivering. I knew when I saw your first Video at just around a few thousand subscribers, your hard work would pay off!

There is so much more to Next.js which makes it super awesome. I spent the last week or so to read through the entire documentation because its fascination me so much what great features especially with version 12 it offers and how much attention to detail is put into it.

Hi Tyler, You got a sub. Really amazing breaking it down into pieces so that we could clearly understand what problem did we get and ultimately the solution was produced. Thanks so much for creating a really helpful video without the talks of here and there.

Fantastic work, thank you! Love the way you present historic content. For react, what most people overlook is the fact that is all js, not modified markup or fancy css slang. I value it a lot after years of suffering through jsp world. That's why vue and angular can never compete with react in my eyes.

It's absolutely phenomal the rate at which the technology industry continues to grow. I remember when React started to gain traction, then the introduction to Next.js and now even frameworks that go even further beyond to solve the drawbacks of Next.js and so the introduction to frameworks like Remix have been made. Absolutely love it at the same time though :D

Love all this historical context. So rare to see it discussed, and so well to boot!

I think I found a goldmine of channel! Keep up the great work!

I wanted it to be longer because i enjoyed every minute of it. Thank you!

Nice content, dude! It would be great if the next video was about CSS frameworks or libraries. You have done Typescript, React, Next.js, so I am looking forward to it.

I was frustrated for the past 3 months, as I have nothing to do in my spare time beside gaming. Just found out your channel yesterday and immediately subs with notification on. Thank you for giving me purpose to fill my spare time beside just mindlessly watching youtube short or and instagram

You've managed to answer the "Why" behind the existence of this technology, which is something I've never heard explained well. Javascript frameworks have such annoying mania that I could never tell whether something was a real, viable technology or not. Very well done.

What a lovely and accurate and engaging and well-produced video. Well done!

A very well put together video, enjoyed and learnt a few things. NextJS is definitely one of the best things to happen to front-end development in recent times. I love working with Next and emotion to make fast, reactive SPAs 🌸

Amazing content! i always struggle to explain the 'why ' of some technologies to my students. I'm now suggesting your videos.

this is srsly amazing; all this content is hella quality and I enjoy these videos a lot; keep it up!!

Hey uitodev, just want to say this video was amazing. You are on the same level as fireship in terms of content and how you break it down. One day you will have over a million subs, you deserve it! Thanks.

Shared this with the readers of my coding based newsletter. Keep up the good work. Will be following your content very closely

This is such a well-narrated & produced video! Great job!!

hope u make more of these! loved the visuals

Excellent video! Well thought out and loving the animations to describe your points

It. Just. Brilliant. Masterpiece. Have no more words. Love the narrative style with all the video inserts from the past and present. You have covered the subject in great details. Thanks!

Uploading this as a podcast would help me through my day

Your signal to noise ratio is incredible. Great work.

Funny how Webpack gets that reputation - as a beginner programmer with only a small Electron app under my belt, it literally took a week to get a working Webpack configuration to do what I want (VueJS instead of React). Now, with my current experience, it doesn't seem _that_ bad - only time consuming. Overall, great video! One thing that I think was left out was the mention of Douglas Crockford and Google Maps. Douglas Crockford was one of the earliest people to use JavaScript for serious large apps in production, even before Google Maps. And Google Map really proved to the masses that it was possible to do great things with JavaScript

historical storytelling meets tutorial. new fav channel.

I fell in love with NextJS, now I love it even more! Thank you for this video!

Super helpful. Thank you! A piece of technical feedback: It would be super helpful to share links to the source material for further research. Techlore does this with markdown file in a git repo (which I love) but even just in the video description would be great. Again, great video. The effort shows in the historical sources. Thank you and thank you for siting sources on screen, that is great!

Amazing video. Fantastic visuals and clean explanations. Please keep it up. I can see this channel becoming the next fireship.

"If you're really kinky you could pick the webpack docs for your punishment of choice" 😂 Love the storytelling and narration, and the subtle humour.

The way you presented the whole video was 🤌🏼. It would be great if you could do a next.js vs remix comparison.

I am a web backend engineer and it obviously comes with it's own culture like absolute disdain for anything frontal. Though, your videos, especially how you always explain the history of each project and it's building blocks, in a concise way is something I will gladly enjoy. Awesome work.

Nice video, sums up the core ideas like they were. Though, you make it seem like it was an overnight revolution 😁 Also Vercel's platform makes a big part of the story with all the integrations and things that were previously hard to implement with a small dev team. (in my biased opinion)

i really love content with this kind of format. Keep it up.

love this video and i love nextjs. I hope the react community takes on nextjs as the standard way of building react apps

Binged all the "Story of..." videos. Awesome stuff. Will check out your other works. Subscribed.

I like how you always include the history.

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks for your great work, your videos are premium quality contents 👏

NextJS quickly became my go to dev framework for building web apps after giving it a go in a smaller project. I have since ported all my large projects over from vanilla react to NextJS as well. I just love the versatility it gives you and I love essentially having a node server and server rendered pages available whenever I need it. It's so nice to build out API's for my web apps without having to jump back and forth.

Svelte is already what everyone is moving to and it is the best thing to happen to web development since JQuery IMO.

NextJS is love, thank you Vercel 🙏

I just saw this video, and I did what I never do: even before entering this video - I entered the channel. Then, read few video titles, and immediately, not as ever before, subscribed... Without even seeing a single video. Only then I've found myself here. But not before I see that there is no new content in this channel for a long while now. Why? You've something truly cool in your hands! A great concept, a great content, a great approach, a great editing, a great perspective... Maintaining an active dynamic channel is a challenge, but as a person who appreciates quality - I must say: Do appreciate your creation and keep uploading a new content. I wish you the best of luck. You're awesome. Just make sure to show it much more often..

wow love it, thanks for making this great vid on Next!!

Wow! High quality content!!!!! Excellent video, you kept me hooked all the way. Very nice animations also, it was perfecto

Always great to learn more about the history of React!

SPAs are pretty cool and have valid use-case when you're actually building an "app" (not a website), just make sure to use Vite (or something like Vite) cause that does tackle the issue brought up (large bundle sizes slowing down initial render).

This video is truly amazing. And true. Next.js though is not the only one today to carry such an offer and often some of other frameworks are doing better in my opinion such as Sveltekit or Nuxt. Thanks for this video !

This is top notch quality, I'm really glad I found your channel. I know you are into js, but can you make a video about the story of c# from the beginning to what it is now? From similarity to Java to maui and so on

Best history video lol, keep it up. Can't wait for a react native same style video

U really hit it out of the ball park with this one!! If anyone asks me what Next is, I’ll just show them this vid from now on.

straight sub. love this graphical / visual approach.

Next.js is definitely not alone in the static world, but the general concept of pre-packaging static files and just shipping the already processed files is a revolution in page load, speed of development and cost.

Came up in my feed - GREAT VIDEO!

this video is epic. thanks for putting this together!

Isomorphic apps are amazing. This year is going to be an amazing year for the web. Page transitions, new color spaces, reactive programming and isomorphic apps will make web apps better than ever.

Your clarity of thought is impressive

Now I am convinced that I should learn next as my next choice of framework as I already am aware with react

I've watched some of your videos, and love the presentation and animation. If it's something you're comfortable sharing, could you share what tool you used to build the animations in the video? For example, like the ones at 10:05 (animation on the left, code on right)

In the late 2010s I switch from frontend work to backend work because I just couldn’t stand it anymore. 2 months ago I started learning Next with no background in SPAs or React and it has brought back the joy of web development to me. This video is more than a year old now and holds up well but there have already been many more great innovations added to Next like App Router, React Server Components, Streaming or Server Actions

I lovethe quality on this video. awesome content.

Fantastic content. I recently started mentoring my best friend 1:1 (a very serious, structured mentorship) to help him get into app development and software engineering. Early on I told him that one of the most important things is just mindset and perspective. Not just mechanical skills. This includes learning the history of where we are now and how we got here. Just understanding how react let’s you handle state is not enough to go make good software. I’ve consulted on react apps that were the craziest mess of spindly, spiderwebby chaos you can imagine. And I’ve worked with COBOL code bases that were actually quite pleasant (at least once you’ve gotten over the shock of COBOL…). The value Understanding the progression in web history from chaotic jquery state/view complecting to the modern philosophy of views being a function of state, it just can’t be overstated. Just really love these videos because I feel like I can hand them off to my mentees who are still fairly green and they get a massive amount of benefit out of it. Great work here. As an extension to this I think it would be great to see something like this that explores the more theoretical side of things. Like entscheidungsproblem and the Turing/church era. There’s a lot of wisdom to be extrapolated from the history there without getting bogged down by the technical complexity. Sorry I’m ranting. Really just wanted to say top notch content. This context is legitimately helpful for real humans and you are doing great work. Keep it up!

A common criticism of development careers is that people often say that it's really difficult to keep up with learning the latest frameworks, technologies, etc. It's not a totally unfair point, but I've always felt that they mostly just keep making life easier! I suppose there's some growing pains along the way, but ultimately I love seeing what new stuff the geniuses have come up with

this is one of the best web dev videos i've ever seen.

Damn. There was once a time where Apple was supportive of web apps and now there's a time where Apple doesn't let PWAs to be published directly via the App Store.

Good job! Looking forward to more web history packaged like this. ❤️

Lovely video. I like NextJS. I'm also happy Remix is improving on it.

Excellent video as always. Love this channel. Keep it up.

Content was so amazing even as a fresher in this technology i can clearly understand where are frameworks are holding nowadays .

This is a near perfect breakdown. Especially the evolution and how Next has combined all of the findings of that evolution into a holistic solution. The parts don't solve everything, but together it's the near perfect stack. Can you do a video on NestJS? I find it interesting how I'm able to bring Java people in my org over to my team and they can pick up NestJS almost immediately -- since it's very Spring bootlike.

Cool video. Love the way to clearly explain it and put it into perspective

this video is extremely well made! I really appreciate you taking the time to make this.

Still ... as a backend developer, I'm really happy I haven't spent too much time on Frontend before the age of css grid/flexbox, web workers, indexedDB and WebAssembly

I don't know why but I can't get out of my head the "*Backbonejs invented the MVC architecture*" joke from the React video of this series. Great video again btw!

Hey, I love the series and I have a suggestion. Yesterday, I signed the contract for my first job in IT and in general, and it seems that I'm required to use Linux terminal for better programming and install WSL, it may not apply specifically to js, but to programming in general, but my idea for the video is "Why Linux won?"

Can’t wait for the Remix version of this

The React part just got me. As a backend, engine dev, hoping into React Native / Ionic really confused me a lot by their documents and the mess I need to put in my brain before it really do something useful.

IMO using Vite, TS, and React to create a SPA is the best way to create an enterprise front end application. The features of Next add too much complexity for an enterprise environment (think in terms of personnel, onboarding, that kind of thing). However complexity is always being reduced. Simply migrating from CRA to Vite reduced our overhead by a very noticeable amount, for example. I'm always finding myself returning to Next whenever I want to spin something up as a quick PoC so I'm very much looking forward to its future. Anyone who likes JS, regardless of FE/BE/whatever will like using Next.

Best presentation of Next JS I've seen. You think Next JS is the best? What do you think of Svelte? Can you do a video on that, too, as Vercel, people behind NextJS, has taken it upon themselves to improve Svelte with Rich Harris. I think it's a great move on Vercel's part.

I wanted to sub, and then I've realised I already was.. guess your content is as dope as it used to be when I subbed

Thanks for quality contents 👏🏻

Masterful video My dude. That was amazing. I make video games with things like unity and unreal, so none of this stuff really matters to me. And yet I was fully engaged in the video the entire time. So interesting and distilled. Nice Job loved it!

honestly a well thought out easy to follow informative video. Thank you

🔥Will be interesting to see how Next continues to evolve over the next couple years with React 18

Great video and the animations are sick!

Fascinating summary very well written.

This is brilliant, as always!

I love the way you explain brother!! Respect!

Excellent explanation of nextjs! Maybe you could mention revalidate with fallback option for server static props and paths. Anyway it was brilliant!