NextJS doesn't support websockets or proxying them. It's middleware act's like its running on the edge instead of nodejs. Andddd their cookie library isn't configurable. Here are my techniques for getting around all these problems and get this whole thing to work - begrudingly.

I've seen too many engineers get stressed about a timelines, then they come off looking bad. In my experience, looking bad has nothing to do with missing that timeline and instead has everything to do with bad communications and acting shifty/dishonest about the project status. At the end of the day, we're all granted a lot of trust and we gotta pay that trust back by explaining what's going on.

I've seen a ton of post's lately on Twitter, hackernews, etc. All effectively saying "yolo more". Yea that's cool and all, but honestly I actually find true yolo to be much slower and low leverage than just having a decent test harness. Before I start - I'm not advocating for TDD nor am I advocating for really trivial/low value unit tests.