Remix vs Next.js comparison - Hands-On Comparison

Build a Simple Blog with Remix to Compare with Next.js

📖 Scenario: You want to understand how Remix works compared to Next.js by building a simple blog. This blog will show posts stored in a list and let users see the post titles on the homepage.

🎯 Goal: Create a basic Remix app that lists blog posts on the homepage. This will help you see how Remix handles data loading and rendering compared to Next.js.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list of blog posts with exact titles and ids

Add a config variable for the number of posts to show

Use Remix loader function to load posts data

Render the posts list in the homepage component

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Building blogs, marketing sites, or documentation sites that need fast data loading and rendering.

💼 Career

Understanding Remix data loading and rendering helps you work on modern React frameworks and compare them with Next.js for better project decisions.

1

Create the blog posts data list

Create a constant called posts that is a list of objects with these exact entries: { id: 1, title: 'Welcome to Remix' }, { id: 2, title: 'Remix vs Next.js' }, and { id: 3, title: 'Deploying Remix Apps' }.

Remix

// Your code here

Hint

Use export const posts = [...] to create the list of posts.

2

Add a config variable for maximum posts to show

Add a constant called MAX_POSTS and set it to 2 to limit how many posts show on the homepage.

Remix

export const posts = [
  { id: 1, title: 'Welcome to Remix' },
  { id: 2, title: 'Remix vs Next.js' },
  { id: 3, title: 'Deploying Remix Apps' }
];

// Your code here

Hint

Use export const MAX_POSTS = 2; to set the limit.

3

Create a loader function to provide posts data

Write an async function called loader that returns a JSON response with the first MAX_POSTS posts from the posts list using json() from @remix-run/node.

Remix

export const posts = [
  { id: 1, title: 'Welcome to Remix' },
  { id: 2, title: 'Remix vs Next.js' },
  { id: 3, title: 'Deploying Remix Apps' }
];

export const MAX_POSTS = 2;

// Your code here

Hint

Use export async function loader() and return json(posts.slice(0, MAX_POSTS)).

4

Render the posts list in the homepage component

Create a default function component called Index that uses useLoaderData() from @remix-run/react to get the posts data and renders an unordered list (<ul>) with each post's title inside a <li>.

Remix

import { json } from '@remix-run/node';

export const posts = [
  { id: 1, title: 'Welcome to Remix' },
  { id: 2, title: 'Remix vs Next.js' },
  { id: 3, title: 'Deploying Remix Apps' }
];

export const MAX_POSTS = 2;

export async function loader() {
  return json(posts.slice(0, MAX_POSTS));
}

// Your code here

Hint

Use useLoaderData() to get posts and map them inside <ul> with <li>.