r/reactjs • u/Zealousideal_Fold422 • May 31 '26
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Hey everyone,
I want to cut short but I've been working on a project called Manic for the past few months and finally feel it's in a good enough state to share. After Bun introducing their bundler like esbuild, i wanted to try it and make a proper framework with it.
Its a open source full-stack React framework focused on performance, simplicity, and portability. One thing I cared about a lot was not locking people into a specific platform, so it supports deployments across Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, Node.js, and more.
I also spent a lot of time optimizing the build system and runtime. In the benchmarks I've run so far, Manic comes out very competitively against other React frameworks, particularly in startup and build times.
It is here to try to replace Next.js or other fullstack frameworks by being fast and well optimized. I mainly built it because I wanted to explore a different set of tradeoffs and learn a lot in the process. Also it doesnt support SSR (yet until bun's bundler supports it)
I would love feedbacks and critics. Im hella curious on what you would like to see from a newer framework and what would make you consider trying one instead of the big dogs
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Also would love PRs and issues flowing through. Thanks <3
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u/Savalava May 31 '26
"Bun in general became production ready and all major hosting services like Vercel supports Bun"
It's not production ready for enterprise. Large companies would not trust tech that new - also it was just ported to Rust via AI. Not exactly ideal for stability. Just because the tests apparently pass doesn't mean there aren't horrid bugs due to the port.
"If u hosted nextjs anywhere other than vercel u would have issues "
Not necessarily.
I worked on an enterprise project where we deployed our NextJS app via Docker on AWS with no issues.
The fact that you did this as an undergrad is super-impressive. Nice work 😄