This is part 1 of a series documenting Hardcover’s Alexandria release. We recently migrated our codebase from Next.js to Ruby on Rails, and it’s been amazing so far! It was a learning experience, and I’m excited to share some of our takeaways. I’ll link each article here as it’s written. Introducing Alexandria: Faster, Smoother, Smarter Part 1: How we fell out of love with Next.js and back in love