Experimental Gestures and Foundation Building
Today brings exciting experimental features with gesture-driven navigation support in the App Router, plus major infrastructure improvements including enhanced Turbopack build filtering and React upgrades. The team also focused heavily on developer experience with better debugging tools and test reliability improvements.
Duration: PT4M9S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Next.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next.js
- Published: 2026-01-20T11:29:11Z
- Audio duration: PT4M9S
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Hey there, developers! Welcome back to another episode of the Next.js podcast. I'm your host, and wow, what a day January 20th has been for the Next.js codebase! We've got some genuinely exciting experimental features landing alongside some really solid foundation work that's going to make your development…
Let's dive right into the big news - Andrew Clark just landed something pretty special with experimental gesture-driven navigation support in the App Router. This adds a new `experimental_gesturePush` method that's gated behind the `experimental.gestureTransition` config flag. Now, before you get too excited,…
Speaking of React, we've had not one but two React upgrades in the past couple of days, bringing us right up to the latest experimental builds. It's always exciting to see how tightly integrated the Next.js team stays with React's development - you're literally getting access to the future of React as it's being built.
Now, let's talk about some developer experience wins that are going to make your life easier. Hendrik Liebau has been absolutely crushing it with Turbopack improvements. The `--debug-build-paths` flag now properly filters routes in Turbopack builds, which…
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