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In a world of accelerating digital innovation, we need tools that transform the web development landscape. In his recent Figma Config keynote, Guillermo Rauch spoke about how we at Vercel enable builders—non-developers included—to tighten the cycle of design and deploy. Below, we’ll dive behind the scenes of the talk and give you tangible ways to try out Vercel’s Frontend Cloud. Read more Continue reading...

React 18 has introduced concurrent features that fundamentally change the way React applications can be rendered. We'll explore how these latest features impact and improve your application's performance. Read more Continue reading...

In a previous blog post, we talked about why we are porting Turborepo, the high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript, from Go to Rust. Now, let's talk about how. Today, our porting effort is in full swing, moving more and more code to Rust. But when we were starting out, we had to make sure that porting was feasible for us to accomplish. A migration from one language to another is no small task and there's a lot of research to do up front to ensure that the end goal is attainable. Here’s how we started the process, validated our current porting strategy, and made the call to port Turborepo to Rust. Read more Continue reading...

Over the past 6 months, AI companies like Scale, Jasper, Perplexity, Runway, Lexica, and Jenni have launched with Next.js and Vercel. Vercel helps accelerate your product development by enabling you to focus on creating value with your AI applications, rather than spending time building and maintaining infrastructure. Read more Continue reading...

Potion.so is a Notion-to-website builder powered by Next.js and Vercel. Founder and sole employee Noah Bragg leverages the Platforms Starter Kit and Vercel's Edge Network to serve 4,000 custom domains and over 100,000 pageviews. In June 2023, Potion was acquired for $300,000. Read more Continue reading...

Svelte has made a name for itself in the world of web development frameworks, thanks to its unique approach of converting components into optimized JavaScript modules. This innovative way of rendering apps eliminates the overhead found in traditional frameworks, leading to more performant and efficient applications. With the release of SvelteKit 1.0, developers can leverage the power of fullstack Svelte without worrying about breaking changes. Furthermore, SvelteKit continues to evolve, offering a robust set of features and seamless integration with various deployment environments, including Vercel. Vercel, using framework-defined infrastructure (FDI), has embraced SvelteKit, recently adding support for per-route configuration for...

Have you ever seen a 404 for requests from old clients after a deployment? Or gotten a 500 error because the client didn’t know that a new server deployment changed an API? We're introducing a generic fix for this problem space. Vercel customers are deploying over 6 million times per month, making their businesses more successful one commit at a time. But since the dawn of the distributed computing age, each system deployment has introduced the risk of breakage: When client and server deployments aren’t perfectly in sync, and they won’t be, then calls between them can lead to unexpected behavior. We call this issue version skew. In the worst case, version skew can break your app, and in the best case, it leads to substantial extra...

Neo Financial is a next-generation banking app and Canada’s fastest-growing financial services company. They’re leveraging Vercel's frontend cloud to enhance their web development process, boost performance, and meet industry security standards—all while saving on resources. Read more Continue reading...

Today we’re excited to announce updates to Draft Mode, making it easier to see your latest content changes before they’re published. Draft Mode goes hand in hand with Visual Editing, our real-time content editing feature for websites using headless Content Management Systems (CMSes). When you make changes through Visual Editing, you can guarantee that your edits will show up the next time the page is viewed in Draft Mode. Read more Continue reading...

The ability to process data as it streams has always been a fundamental concept in computer science. JavaScript developers had access to streaming through XMLHttpRequest, but it wasn't until 2015 that it was accessible natively through the Fetch API. Web streams provide a standardized way to continuously send or receive data asynchronously across network connections. They bring the power of streaming to the web, enabling developers to handle large data sets through "chunks", deal with congestion control (backpressure), and create highly efficient and responsive applications. Leveraging web streams in your web apps can enhance the performance and responsiveness of your UIs. The immediate data processing allows for real-time updates and...

While reMarkable, pioneers of the next-generation paper tablet, can credit much of their initial success to their original website, they knew they’d need to improve key elements of their stack and workflow to reach new heights. The team opted for a composable stack—comprised of Sanity, Next.js, and Vercel—to meet the needs of their developers while empowering their content creators to deliver truly delightful digital experiences. Read more Continue reading...

We're excited to announce a new LaunchDarkly integration to bring low latency, global feature flags to your favorite frontend framework. Feature flags help your team safely release new code and experiment with changes. Vercel Edge Config helps you instantly read configuration data globally, making it a perfect match for feature flag and experimentation data. Read more Continue reading...

We’re in the midst of the next big platform shift. Last generation we moved from server rooms to the cloud, and today we’re moving from the traditional, backend-oriented cloud to a new frontend cloud. The frontend cloud is characterized by performance: It enables both faster application development and faster end-user interactions. Each element is critical to success in today’s ultra-competitive software market. At Clerk, we build authentication for the frontend cloud. We saw the need arise as frameworks and hosts tailored to the frontend cloud grew in popularity, especially Next.js and Vercel. Legacy authentication tools were not built frontend-first, and their technical architecture usually undermines the goal of speeding up...

We've been partnering with Nuxt to further integrate the framework with Vercel and support all Vercel products. Nuxt on Vercel now supports: Read more Continue reading...

Vercel builds a frontend-as-a-service product—they make it easy for engineers to deploy and run the user facing parts of their applications. Read more Continue reading...

We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership with Sanity—the Composable Content Cloud. Sanity is the modern content management system companies use to meet the realities of ever-increasing content complexity and customer expectations. Giving developers the tools to create at the moment of inspiration is core to both Vercel and Sanity’s DNA. From enabling Sanity Studio to be embedded in a Next.js app to the recent co-development of Visual Editing, we aim to challenge the status quo through joint innovation. The composability at every layer of Sanity's content stack combined with Vercel’s Frontend Cloud result in the industry’s leading Web architecture for next-generation apps—trusted by organizations like Loom, Morning Brew, and...

Today marks a significant milestone for frontend development. May 29th is the 10th anniversary of React, a project that has transformed the web industry and reshaped the way we build digital experiences. A huge congratulations and thank you to the team at Meta, who through their stewardship and relentless innovation, have created and maintained one of the most successful open source projects of all time. Read more Continue reading...

If you've tried a new tech tool recently, this experience might sound familiar: you visit the website, skim the homepage content, but still struggle to understand what the tool will do for you. The Vercel virtual product tour is a key resource for prospective teams to interactively understand what Vercel can offer. It takes the breadth of information about Vercel and breaks the product down into the most relevant parts. First, we’ll talk about why we designed the tour the way we did. Then, for the technically curious, we’ll walk through some of the most interesting hows. Read more Continue reading...

We're excited to share that TinaCMS now supports Visual Editing in Vercel Preview Deployments. The TinaCMS team is on a mission to bring visual editing to the headless CMS in a way that works for developers. So when we had the opportunity to collaborate with Vercel on this, we didn't hesitate and the results are stunning. Read more Continue reading...

Today, we’re announcing Vercel’s AI Accelerator – a program for the brightest AI builders and early stage startups. Over a span of 6 weeks, we aim to empower 40 of the industry's top innovators to create and develop next-generation AI apps. Applications are open for two weeks – apply today. Read more Continue reading...