Next.js moved from a “React meta-framework” to the default production stack for teams that need server-side rendering (SSR), static generation,…
Back when static site generators (SSGs) like Jekyll were dominant, the mental model was simple: build once, deploy, serve forever.…
In the early days of the web, browsers primarily fetched full HTML pages from servers and rendered them. Interactivity was…
Long before the Single Page Application (SPA) era, nearly all web pages were server-side rendered: the server would accept a…
In the early web, nearly every site was static: hand-written HTML, CSS, maybe a little JavaScript. Over time, the demand…
In recent years, the “static site” paradigm (pre-rendering most pages at build time) has matured: frameworks now let you combine…
You probably know Guillermo Rauch as the person behind Next.js, but his arc starts earlier. Born in Lanús, Buenos Aires,…
Modern Next.js apps default to the App Router and React Server Components (RSC). That unlocks streaming, data-fetching on the server,…
Vercel is a cloud platform that lets you build, preview, and ship web frontends with minimal configuration. The company began…
When you build a Next.js app and add custom fonts, the font files often become a critical path resource: slow…