Building App-like Experiences with Next.js 16.3
A hands-on look at how Next.js 16.3 helps apps feel fast and smooth, more like a single-page app, without losing the benefits of server rendering. Using four demo apps, it shows how features like Instant Navigations, Cache Components, Partial Prefetching, optimistic updates, Suspense streaming, offline retry, and View Transitions work together in real apps
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Next.js team AMA
The Next.js team opened the floor to community questions and covered a lot of ground. The AMA focused on Next.js 16.3, performance, caching, App Router, React Server Components, and upgrading apps, along with some insight into how the team works on the framework
Coordinating Optimistic Updates in Next.js
This guide shows how useActionState and useOptimistic can work together to keep the UI updated right away, save changes in the right order, and roll back cleanly if something fails
Using next/root-params in Next.js 16.3
The new next/root-params API lets Server Components read top-level params like [locale] from deep in the tree, which makes next-intl much easier to use
Docs for React's new browser() API
The docs for React's new browser() API are now available in Canary. You can pass it to use(), where it suspends to the nearest Suspense boundary on the server, then renders normally in the browser
📦 Projects / Packages / Tools
Better Auth 1.7
A big release for Better Auth, especially around OAuth, OpenID Connect, SCIM, SSO, MCP, and device login flows. The main theme here is stronger auth, better enterprise identity support, and more standards-based ways for apps and devices to sign in and get access
Next 16 Calendar "Flow"
A calendar and booking demo exploring Async React, Cache Components, Partial Prefetching, and View Transitions with Next.js 16.3, React 19, Tailwind CSS v4, and Prisma.
Formisch v1 is here
Formisch, a schema-based form library, has reached a stable v1 release and is now ready for production use. It works across eight frameworks and lets you keep the same form logic even if you change UI or framework later
scroll-mask
A collection of Tailwind CSS utilities for fading edges of scroll containers based on scroll position.
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