Next.js: Instant Navigation Gets Real + Turbopack Performance Wins
The Next.js team shipped 20 major pull requests focusing heavily on instant navigation improvements and Turbopack performance optimizations. Andrew Clark led the charge with new testing tools and navigation fixes, while Luke Sandberg delivered impressive database compaction speedups of up to 53% for Turbopack builds.
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: 2026-02-25T11:17:56Z
- Audio duration: PT4M9S
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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 an exciting day to dig into! February 25th brought us 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits, and I'm honestly buzzing about what the team accomplished.
You know that feeling when you're working on something cool and suddenly all the pieces start clicking into place? That's exactly what happened with instant navigation this week. Andrew Clark has been absolutely crushing it with a series of updates that are making instant navigation not just work better, but…
The biggest news? We now have a brand new `@next/playwright` package with an `instant()` testing helper. Think of it like throttling your network in DevTools, but specifically designed for testing prefetched and cached UI states. This is huge because it means we can finally write reliable tests for those…
But Andrew didn't stop there. He also fixed a tricky bug where route parameters were leaking into instant navigation shells during development. You know how frustrating it can be when your carefully crafted loading states suddenly show real data they shouldn't? This fix ensures that when you're…
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