Building (or cloning) a JavaScript-based app using React as the front-end framework comes with some challenges. You want to focus on building and shipping the application rather than spending too much time configuring, code-splitting, determining content loading architecture, and bundling it all together in order to serve it as a web application.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.crowdbotics.com/how-to-build-a-hacker-news-clone-with-react-and-next-js/