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It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use
I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Next.js DX was just.
API routes were exciting as they gave me a serverless function without setting up any extra infra - super handy for things like “Contact Us” forms on a marketing site. Instead, we exposed specific methods from the Web Request API, unifying and optimizing each for usage in different contexts: Components, Server Actions, Route Handlers, and Middleware. These APIs allow the developer to explicitly opt into framework heuristics like dynamic rendering, and makes it easier for Next.js to track usage, breaking the work, and optimizing as much as possible.
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