Part 1: How We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ruby on Rails & Inertia.js | Hardcover

This is part 1 of a series documenting Hardcover’s Alexandria release. We recently migrated our codebase from Next.js to Ruby on Rails, and it’s been amazing so far! It was a learning experience, and I’m excited to share some of our takeaways. I’ll link each article here as it’s written. Introducing Alexandria: Faster, Smoother, Smarter Part 1: How we fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails & Inertia.js Part 2: Moving from the Cloud to the Server – Google & AWS to Digital Ocean and Kamal Part 3: How we use Puppeteer to generate OpenGraph images Part 4: Speeding up Ruby on Rails with Solid Cache, server side rendering, Sidekiq, and Brick Part 5: Securing and Speeding up our API Server.