Will we regret building our new site with Nextjs App Router?

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We're currently working on our stand-alone politics site, (that you can preview at https://manifold.markets/elections) using the newer App Router from Nextjs. This is different from our main site, that uses the Pages Router. From my experience the app router is more feature-ful but slightly higher friction to develop new pages. It's also less IDE friendly: every file is named either page.tsx or layout.tsx! So, are we doing the right thing or not? I will poll the other manifold devs in 4 months and ask them to compare their experience working on the politics site vs the main site and ask them if they consider the extra work of switching worth it.

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We never ended up building the other site up more than a prototype, so I'm going to cancel this market, sorry!

Are you taking advantage of the server side rendering? It's a huge benefit. Same with the enhancements from many other new things being done server-side. Just so fast and secure. Our team has loved it so far.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17rq3ug/why_do_you_use_pages_instead_of_app_router/

@NoaNabeshima > "short" displays the parent directory name

// .vscode/settings.json

{
  "workbench.editor.labelFormat": "short",
  // other settings
}

Base rate of regretting the decisiont o swap out a known and working system for a new unknown one. No special knowledge here

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