Next.js: Spring Cleaning and Instant Navigation Breakthrough
The Next.js team had an incredibly productive day with 17 merged PRs and major progress on instant navigation features. Key highlights include a massive React upgrade, groundbreaking build-time validation for instant navigation, and extensive documentation improvements for Turbopack, plus significant backend cleanup removing over 1,500 lines of unused code.
Duration: PT4M15S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Next.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next.js
- Published: 2026-03-13T10:31:41Z
- Audio duration: PT4M15S
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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 action-packed episode for you today. March 12th was absolutely buzzing with activity in the Next.js codebase, and I'm genuinely excited to dive into what the team has been cooking up.
Let's jump right into the main event - we had seventeen merged pull requests yesterday, which is just incredible. The team has been absolutely on fire, and there's so much goodness to unpack here.
First up, let's talk about the elephant in the room - the React upgrade. The team pulled in the latest React changes with over 1,400 lines modified across 106 files. Now, I know React upgrades can sometimes feel a bit scary, but this is exactly the kind of steady progress that keeps Next.js at the cutting edge. It's…
But here's where things get really exciting - the instant navigation features are making huge strides. We got two major PRs from Janka that are honestly game-changing. The first one introduces build-time validation for instant navigation, and folks, this is big. Imagine being able to catch navigation issues during…
The companion PR adds owner stack traces for…
Andrew Clark…
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