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                 # Comparison and contrast between Next.js and Sapper? 

What is Next.js?

As the .js extension suggests, Next is a javascript framework. It can help you to make attractive web applications using React. The configuration of the next framework can be done by just a single command:

npm run dev

It is important to remember that prerequisites include React and Javascript before using Next.js. Since Next.js uses React it comes with its own problems. These problems include increased loading time of the web pages and SEO understanding of the code. The core and important features that Next.js provides are listed below:

1. Code Reloader:

Whenever you make changes to your system and save it, next.js will automatically reload the page implying the changes.

2. Server side Rendering:

In next.js components can be rendered easily using the server just before sending the code file to the client.

3. Automatic Code Splitting:

Pages are delivered with simply the libraries and JavaScript that they need, nothing else that it. Rather than creating one single JavaScript document containing all the application code, the application is separated consequently by Next.js in a few unique assets.

What is Sapper?

Sapper is built over the Svelte library. Svelte is a different than other types of frameworks and it provides better performance too. Svelte is somewhere coinciding with react in some features, but the better performance feature is its unique part. Any code which takes X time to run in Sapper will take 20X times in Next.js. So you know which one should you choose?

Although Sapper is reported to be relatively new in the market but I bet its demand and usage will increase in the industry. So sapper will not have that much community support. It also won’t be the best tech stack for each and every project.

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• svelte