What to Expect from React and Next.js in 2026
After the transformative releases of 2025, React 19.2 and Next.js 16.1 now define the baseline for modern React development. The React Compiler shipped stable. ...
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After the transformative releases of 2025, React 19.2 and Next.js 16.1 now define the baseline for modern React development. The React Compiler shipped stable. ...
The React and Next.js ecosystem in January 2025 looked dramatically different from where we stand now in December. React 19 had just stabilized. Next.js 15 was ...
I spent years wrapping components in React.memo, optimizing callbacks with useCallback, and caching expensive computations with useMemo. It became muscle memory...
Our product pages had a problem: 80% of the content was static (product info, images, descriptions) but 20% was dynamic (inventory, pricing, recommendations). I...
Our image editor's blur filter took 3 seconds on a 4K image in JavaScript. After porting it to WebAssembly, it runs in 180ms. That's not a typo 16x faster. WebA...
Our monolithic React application reached 2.3 million lines of code. Builds took 45 minutes. Three teams blocked each other constantly. We split it into seven mi...
Our product team wanted image moderation without sending user photos to external APIs. Privacy concerns and latency requirements ruled out server-side solutions...
After profiling our e-commerce site, I found users waited 3.2 seconds for the "Add to Cart" button to become interactive. The culprit was React's hydration down...
Last year, our photo editing SaaS was choking on high-resolution images. Users uploaded 50MB RAW files expecting instant previews, but our JavaScript-based proc...
Our React application was hemorrhaging performance. Initial bundle size hit 2.3MB, First Contentful Paint averaged 8.2 seconds on mobile, and users were abandon...
Most React developers know the basics: use semantic HTML, add alt text to images, and include ARIA labels. But building truly accessible applications requires m...
After building React applications with different state management solutions for the past three years, I've learned that choosing the right approach isn't just a...
Three years ago, I was that frontend developer who avoided Docker like the plague. "It's too complicated," I thought. "Why do I need containers when I can just ...
After building dozens of forms in React applications over the past few years, I've learned that choosing between controlled and uncontrolled components isn't ju...
When our React application grew to over 500 components and 2.5MB of JavaScript, I learned that code splitting isn't just an optimization it's essential for main...
After building design systems for teams ranging from 5 to 500+ developers, I've learned that the secret to a successful design system isn't just good components...
After writing thousands of React tests across dozens of projects, I've learned that the difference between tests that give you confidence and tests that break w...
Building a scalable theme system in React isn't just about switching between light and dark modes. In my experience working with design systems across multiple ...
Eight months ago, our engineering team faced a crisis. Our React monolith had grown to 200,000 lines of code, deployments took 45 minutes, and four different te...
After migrating three production applications to React 19's Server Components, I've learned that the biggest challenge isn't understanding the technical differe...
Last week, I spent three days hunting down a memory leak that was causing our React application to slow to a crawl after just 30 minutes of use. The culprit? A ...
Three months ago, I made a decision that initially scared me: migrating our production React application from Redux to Zustand. We had over 50 Redux slices, 200...
React 19 landed in December 2024, and after migrating three production applications to the new version, I've experienced firsthand how this release fundamentall...
After tracking down and fixing thousands of production errors across multiple React applications, I've developed a comprehensive error handling strategy that ca...
After leading the migration of a 500,000-line React monolith to micro-frontends across 8 teams, I learned that success isn't about the technology it's about und...
Over the past year, I've built 47 custom React hooks that solved recurring problems across multiple projects. These hooks eliminated thousands of lines of dupli...
After writing over 3,000 React component tests across multiple projects, I've refined a testing stack that catches 95% of bugs while maintaining developer produ...