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Next.js lets developers iterate on their projects faster—but we want to iterate on Next.js itself faster, too. This year, Next.js surpassed 4 million npm downloads for the first time. With over 2,400+ contributors, the core team here at Vercel must craft a developer experience to keep up with such a vast community to develop, test, build, and publish Next.js. Next.js had another first this year: introducing Rust to its core. While adding Rust brings greatly improved performance for developers using Next.js, the tradeoff was an increase in CI time to publish new releases due to the prolonged process of building Rust binaries. Until implementing Turborepo Remote Caching dropped publish times by 80%. Read more Continue reading...

We held our biggest ever Next.js Conference on October 25, 2022 with over 110,000 registered developers, 55,000 online attendees, and hundreds attending in person in San Fransisco. We had photographers on site to capture the experience and we wanted to share the photos they took with the community. Instead of just sharing photos with a Google Drive link, we thought it’d be good idea to showcase these 350+ amazing photos in an image gallery that was fast, functional, and beautiful. We ended up building our own and open sourcing the code, making it easy for anyone to build their own image gallery. In this blog post, we’re going to share the techniques we used to build a performant image gallery site that can handle hundreds of large...

We believe the Web is an open platform for everyone, and strive to make Vercel accessible and available no matter how you choose to build for the Web. Today we’re introducing the Build Output API, a file-system-based specification that allows any framework to build for Vercel and take advantage of Vercel’s infrastructure building blocks like Edge Functions, Edge Middleware, Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), Image Optimization, and more. Read more Continue reading...

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build your own web framework that also deploys to edge and serverless infrastructure? What features does a modern framework need to support, and how can we ensure that these features allow us to build a scalable, performant web application? Read more Continue reading...

Hashnode, a blogging platform for the developer community built using Next.js, was born from the fundamental idea that developers should own the content they publish. A key component of that ownership is publishing articles on a custom domain—a feature the Hashnode team spent hours monitoring and maintaining themselves. That’s when they turned to Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

We want to keep the Vercel Dashboard fast for every customer, especially as we add and improve features. Aiming to lift our Core Web Vitals, our Engineering Team took the Lighthouse score for our Dashboard from 51 to 94. We were able to confirm that our improvements had a real impact on our users over time using Vercel Analytics, noting that our Vercel Analytics scores went from 90 to 95 on average (desktop). Let’s review the techniques and strategies we used so you can make a data-driven impact on your application. Read more Continue reading...

Updated January 18, 2024. Interaction to Next Paint (INP) measures your site’s responsiveness to user interactions on the page. The faster your page responds to user input, the better. On March 12, 2024, INP will officially replace First Input Delay (FID) as the third Core Web Vital. This post will help you understand why INP is a better way to measure responsiveness than FID and how React and Next.js can improve INP. You'll be prepared for updates to Core Web Vitals, which impact search rankings, as INP moves from experimental to stable. We have a separate post on understanding the metric and further optimization of INP. Read more Continue reading...

We've been working to make it easier for every developer to build at the Edge, without complicated setup or changes to their workflow. Now, with support for WebAssembly in Vercel Edge Functions, we've made it possible to compile and run Vercel Edge Functions with languages like Rust, Go, C, and more. Read more Continue reading...

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We’re excited to announce the third annual Next.js Conf on October 25, 2022. Claim your ticket now. Read more Continue reading...

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We are excited to announce the launch of the Vercel Templates Marketplace. Read more Continue reading...

Running A/B tests is hard. We all know how important it is for our business–it helps us understand how users are interacting with our products in the real world. However, a lot of the A/B testing solutions are done on the client side, which introduces layout shift as variants are dynamically injected after the initial page load. This negatively impacts your websites performance and creates a subpar user experience. To get the best of both worlds, we built Edge Middleware: code that runs before serving requests from the edge cache. This enables developers to perform rewrites at the edge to show different variants of the same page to different users. Today, we'll take a look at a real-world example of how we used Edge Middleware to...

When inspiration struck Benjamin Td to visualize train routes across Europe, he created a Next.js application on Vercel in the moment of inspiration. To his surprise, his project ended up generating over a million views, reaching the top of Hacker News and going viral on Twitter. Read more Continue reading...

We're thrilled to announce our acquisition of Turborepo to join us on our mission to make the Web. Faster. Read more Continue reading...

React is one of the most popular ways to build user interfaces. Many of the world's largest enterprises and newest startups are building their online presence with it, pushing demand for React developers, improvements to React, and learning resources to an all-time high. Read more Continue reading...

Svelte has been voted the most loved Web framework with the most satisfied developers. In this 45-minute interview with Lee Robinson, hear Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, talk about his plans for the future of the framework. Other topics include funding open source, SvelteKit 1.0, the Edge-first future, and more. Read more Continue reading...

From open source to a more powerful edge, see our predictions for the future of frontend development—featuring experts in React, Next.js, Svelte, and more. Read more Continue reading...

The largest software companies in the world use monorepos. But historically, adopting a monorepo for anything other than at a Facebook or Google scale was difficult, time-consuming, and often filled with headaches. Since Turborepo joined Vercel, we’ve seen development teams of all sizes adopt Turborepo for faster builds and save over 200 days worth of time by remotely caching their deployments on Vercel. Read more Continue reading...

Parachute is a modern lifestyle brand that offers thoughtfully designed products using premium quality materials. The engineering team initially deployed the Parachute site to Shopify because of its quick templates and SEO benefits. But after seven and a half years of rapid growth, they realized they’d outgrown the out-of-the-box offering and needed a solution that gave them more customization and flexibility—without slowing down their site or sacrificing SEO. Read more Continue reading...