Next.js compared
with Astro, Webflow, WordPress, Remix and Shopify.
Next.js is a free, open-source React framework for full-stack web apps. Each page puts it beside one alternative and says when the other is the better pick.
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What is Next.js?
Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications, maintained by Vercel. Pages and layouts are React Server Components by default, rendered on the server, and Server Actions change data without a separate API.
It is free under the MIT licence and runs as a Node.js server, in a Docker container, as a static export or through adapters for other hosts. The current version is Next.js 16.4, from October 2026.
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FAQ
Questions,
answered.
Full-stack web apps built with React: products with logins, dashboards and server logic, and large sites that need several ways to render pages.
Yes. Next.js is free under the MIT licence. You pay for hosting and for the developers who build and maintain the site.
No. Next.js runs as a Node.js server or in a Docker container with every feature, or as a static export with some features off. Vercel and Bun have verified adapters.
Yes. It renders HTML on the server and has a Metadata API, plus file conventions for sitemap.xml, robots.txt and Open Graph images.
Next.js 16.4, released in October 2026. Its Cache Components are on by default in new apps and will become the default for every app in Next.js 17.
Yes. Next.js is one of the frameworks our Frontend Development service builds on, alongside Astro.
