NextJS and tRPC

[copper nimbus]

Hi 👋

Is it possible to use NextJS and tRPC within a Tauri application? I know NextJS is possible but the serverside props needs disabled so I'm curious if I can still use tRPC and if I could use it to access the file system and perform tasks on the machine the application is installed on?

[fresh snow]

why use tRPC for that? You really shouldn't directly access the system from the JS side. For security and performance it's best to access the system from Rust. Tauri has built-in rust apis for this that you can call from JS.

[sharp blade]

but the serverside props needs disabled
The whole server side of nextjs will be disabled so there is nothing tRPC could connect to. (Not that i understand what trpc would even solve here 🤔 )

[copper nimbus]

So forgetting accessing the file system. Would it be possible to use tRPC to make data requests? Probably not if server side is disabled and that data should be retrieved up front or through an API I assume?

[sharp blade]

Would it be possible to use tRPC to make data requests?
From where? To remote servers? Sure. To the non-existend nextjs backend? Nope, if it would be possible the "normal" ways would work too :)

[fresh snow]

think of tauri as your server backend and nextJS as your frontend. You no longer have the NextJS backend - tauri is now filling that role.

[copper nimbus]

So would you even recommend using nextjs framework for a green field react project?

[fresh snow]

In my opinion - not really. Not unless you have an already existing NextJS project and you wish to port it to tauri, or you're more comfortable within the NextJS framework.

If those two things are not applicable to you - there are far lighter and more straightforward frameworks to use.

Personally, i prefer to use SolidJS with tauri.

Lot's of people use Svelte as well. Vue is also quite popular.

If you must stick to the React ecosystem - Plain react is good, or Nuxt. NextJS is also fine, as long as you understand the adaptations needed.