Let's go another framework! A fast little framework for server-first React apps, fully compatible with Next.js.

[u/HighAtNight]

https://www.pnext.dev/

Hey guys, happy to finally release this. So it is two parts.

• Core pnext is small and fast: the same next.js api with no/minimal framework overhead and no backward-compat burden. Based on Bun and Preact, 0 KB on server-rendered pages, 7.5 KB client pages runtime, roughly 10x faster first page render in dev and 7-9x faster production builds than next.js (best effort fixtures).
• Compat mode runs your existing Next.js app unchanged (App Router only). About 4.4k assertions from Next's own test suite passing, adding more day by day.

The core motivation was a super fast dev server that doesn't hog memory, and instant builds. The goal is to optimize every step down to absolute values, and of course agentic flows are helping a lot! Check out Coder.

Give it a try and let me know what you think, and how your Next.js apps break in compat mode (improving, haha)!

https://pnext.dev