Next.js: Hot Module Replacement Gets a Major Upgrade
The Next.js team delivered some seriously impressive updates to Turbopack's Hot Module Replacement system, with sokra leading a massive PR implementing dependency-level HMR accept and decline functionality. Along with important safety improvements, documentation updates, and various fixes, this release shows the team's continued focus on making the development experience smoother and more reliable.
Duration: PT4M18S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Next.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next.js
- Published: 2026-03-10T10:26:10Z
- Audio duration: PT4M18S
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Hey there, fellow developers! Welcome back to another episode of the Next.js podcast. I'm your host, and wow - do we have some exciting updates to dive into today. March 10th brought us a fantastic collection of improvements that really show the Next.js team firing on all cylinders.
So let me paint you a picture of what's been happening. We've got 10 merged pull requests and 14 additional commits - and trust me, the quality over quantity here is just incredible. The star of today's show is definitely the work happening around Hot Module Replacement in Turbopack, but we've also got some great…
Let's start with the absolute showstopper - sokra has delivered what might be one of the most technically impressive PRs I've seen in a while. We're talking about implementing dependency-level HMR accept and decline for Turbopack. Now, if you're not familiar with this, think about it this way - previously, when you…
What sokra has built spans over 2,300 lines of changes across 51 files, and it brings us functionality like `module.hot.accept` with specific dependencies, both for CommonJS and ES modules. This means libraries like react-refresh can now work much more elegantly with Turbopack,…
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