Next.js 16.1 File System Caching: 10x Faster Dev Startup
Every time I restarted the dev server on our main application, I'd wait 12-15 seconds. Open laptop, run npm run dev, wait. Switch branches, restart, wait. After...
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Every time I restarted the dev server on our main application, I'd wait 12-15 seconds. Open laptop, run npm run dev, wait. Switch branches, restart, wait. After...
I spent years wrapping components in React.memo, optimizing callbacks with useCallback, and caching expensive computations with useMemo. It became muscle memory...
The disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 on December 11, 2025 prompted a security review across our Next.js applications. While we weren't directly affected, the incide...
When I first saw the Next.js 16 release notes mentioning that middleware was being replaced by a new proxy convention, my initial reaction was concern. We had m...
Our Next.js build took 8 minutes. After migrating to Turbopack in Next.js 16, it takes 2 minutes and 40 seconds. That's a 3x improvement with zero code changes....
Our product pages had a problem: 80% of the content was static (product info, images, descriptions) but 20% was dynamic (inventory, pricing, recommendations). I...
We built our documentation site in Next.js because that's what we knew. Then we discovered Astro shipped our 200-page docs with 12KB of JavaScript. The Next.js ...
Our production app took 4 hours to migrate from Next.js 15 to 16. Most of that time went to two issues: async params migration across 23 route handlers and one ...
Our e-commerce category page had 48 product links. In Next.js 15, hovering triggered prefetching that downloaded 2.4MB of JavaScript and data the full page payl...
Debugging a hydration mismatch used to mean copying error messages, pasting them into Claude, and explaining my route structure. With Next.js 16's MCP integrati...