I started years ago with pages router and I coudln't even build any project with nextjs at this point. Some time I came back and the app router exists and it's soooo much easier to integrate and build your project. App router has way better DX in my opinion

@Blanc de Hotot is your question answered like this?

Thanks, but why is App router easier?

Fewer APIs to worry about imo

I think the hardest thing about it is understanding RSC and why use client is necessary, but after that it feels pretty close to just straight up react

Really? Fewer APIs? seems like more than page routers

based on the doc

Imagine building a layout with metadata, that you want to reuse on nested pages. In pages router, you need to create on every page a Head Tag (maybe integrated in your Layout component) and you need a Layout Component, that wraps every page. In app router, you just create a layout.tsx and add the export metadata on top

Imagine needing a provide in pages router. Than you need to do something with _app.tsx and _document.tsx I have no idea... in app router, you can just go in your root layout and add a component

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^this

I miss the pages approach, app router encourages spaghetti code/structure.

Edit: however, app router is very powerful... you need to know what you're doing and why. There are a lot of pitfalls and footguns

thanks, I actually put header and footer in the _app.tsx file

yeah, those pitfalls and footguns are my concern, I don't want to build a project halfway and find out, oh boy, this is gonna cost me a few more weeks to go around and figure out a solution

That’s me, when trying to use pages router xD

@Blanc de Hototsolved?