This year, the State of JS survey is coming early! Go take it now! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

It's official!! 🥳 I'll be giving a talk at the official @nextjs Conf on October 22nd ✨ My topic is "Architecting and Scaling my Custom Course Platform on Next.js" Can't wait and hope to see you there! If you'll be in SF, would love to hang so let me know :)

I just moved to Italy 🇮🇹 If you are in Italy or EU, let me know and would love to hang!

These micro interactions are beautiful✨ Why bother with modals for confirmation when you can use inline real estate?

Stop Freezing Your UI 🍿 Imagine you go to a restaurant 👩‍🍳 a server comes to take your order but until your food is ready, you're frozen That's the reality in your browser 😅 If you press a button, your entire UI freezes, unless you fix this, you won't be able to do anything. Enter useTransition 👇

Last week’s Snack: Lazy Load Heavy Components ⚡🍿 🚀 Run heavy tasks in the background 📚 @danabra.mov new Learn for JS Developers 🎨 Build gradients on the fly @nerdy.dev 🧠 Deriving Client State from Server State by @tkdodo.eu One email. All the latest frontend + AI news.

Ever wonder why your app feels slow even with a decent backend? 👉 Chances are, you’re forcing users to download everything up front With React.lazy, lazy load heavy components only when they’re actually needed I just broke this down in my newsletter Frontend Snacks, reply if you want the link!

Anyone who knows about view transitions, curious if there is a way around this. Let's say the root group has a 5s animation. An element with its own name/group has a 1s animation. If that inner one is triggered, it takes 1s, but the 5s one is always going to fire as well, yes?

Small Wins 🏆 🔶 I moved the "Mark as Completed" button to the bottom of my Custom course platform I built 🔶 and it automatically advances to the next lesson The Custom Platform is built on top of Next.js and is one of my best decisions. It enables me to design a tailored learning experience.

I enjoy tackling tough problems, but auth is a challenge I'd skip next time. "Just login + signup" turned into ◆ SAML & SCIM chaos ◆ Compliance audits (GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA) ◆ Unwanted security risks In this video, I discuss my journey from DIY to WorkOS and what devs should know before building auth

Last week’s snack: Next.js 15.5 Type Safety 🏆 ⚡ Vercel AI Gateway → one API, all providers 🎥 FFmpeg 8.0 → convert, record & stream anything 🚀 Trigger .dev → Build and deploy AI agents, now out of beta ■ Component Composition by @tkdodo.eu, TanStack Query Maintainer More below

🎤 AMA with Ankita Join me live on Discord for an AMA! Ask about Next.js, engineering leadership, SaaS, developer education, or anything else. 📆 September 2nd ⏰ 11:15am EST 📌 Discord: dub.sh/anky-discord Get your burning questions answered Join here: → dub.sh/ama-event

Don't block the user. Instead, schedule work in the background Introducing the Next.js Hidden After Function ⚡ Schedule background tasks such as: - Logging - Analytics - Sending emails - Firing web hooks - Cache revalidation - Data cleanup (🎥 full breakdown below)

🎟 You're invited to my FREE "Engineering Manager Blueprint" Workshop In this 90-min workshop, you'll learn: → ​A 8-part framework for succeeding as a Leader →​ Where to focus your energy (right now) → ​How to leverage AI and set yourself up for success ⏰ Sept 3rd 12pm - 1:30pm EST lu.ma/cbodu3dp

My newsletter Frontend Snacks goes out to over 10k developers this week! Does anyone have any interesting they’d like to share? I’ll include it if relevant to the newsletter!

My favourite update dropped in Next.js 15.5! Next.js now offers Route Type Safety. My course platform has over 300 routes and this saves me a ton of time when linking between lessons! No more invalid links

Me every day: Damn, this app doesn't do what I want and I'm wasting so much time. Opens up @v0 immediately... Create an invoice generator and allow me to add details

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Next.js 15.5 just dropped the biggest update, I already upgraded a few of my apps! This update addresses one of the major pain points in Next.js where other frameworks excelled. Plus, it preps you for 16. I cover it all in this video 👇

Vibe coding used to be staying up until 2am only to figure out your code was missing a semicolon 😤

I don’t pick tools because they’re trendy. I pick what helps me ship faster. This is my 2025 tech stack with real examples from projects like ProofyBubble + my course platform. 💡 The best stack is the one that makes you productive. (link below)

Would you offer PPP for SaaS products?

✨ My next course, Whimsical Animations, officially has a release date: September 24th! A little over a month from now. 😄 This’ll be another “Early Access” release, with about half of the content available from day 1. Based on feedback from beta testers, this seems to be ~10-15 hours of stuff. 🧵

So it's official, we're getting a new display type for masonry, but it will not be `display: masonry`, but instead, `display: grid-something`... with the something still tbd. Happy that a decision was finally made here :) github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Using @postbridge_ and scheduled my first few videos! If that goes well, I'll start automating my short form content! Always scared to go all in on automations

➡️ If you're Staff level and you're interested in/have experience in Apple technologies, we're looking for someone in Core: www.google.com/about/career...

I feel like a kid in a candy store when Josh publishes a new blog post!

✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element. With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines. You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵

You'll soon be able to view the Funnel Progress of each individual user in Vemetric I love it when a feature integrates so seamlessly in almost all the other places of a product 🤌

Tweaking the Custom course Platform I built to improve the UX Torn between keeping those MODULE numbers or removing them altogether? Module 1, 2, 3 yay or nay on topping module name?

Okay I must admit this was so funny! 😆 I launched the Nextjs course on August 12th, worked hard to create daily vlogs only to not publish any vlogs during launch week 💀 Response was overwhelming I was - busy answering support emails - onboarding folks - improving the course I just forgot lol

Time to celebrate an amazing launch! 🥂 Thanks y’all for your support whether it be boosting, engaging or testing my course It went beyond my expectations 🥳 Can’t wait to help these devs level up their Next.js skills 💜

Why is this the first time I'm seeing this?? 🙈 Apparently, I missed a lot of messages on Discord

💡Modern Full Stack Next.js Course OPEN HOUSE is now live! A lot of you have been asking if you can preview the course and see if my teaching style is the right fit for you You can access 3 lessons from the course ◆ Completely free ◆ No login required → dub.sh/nextjs-open... (course is 50% off)

Marc Lou truly cooked with @DataFast_ 🔥

Adding subtle changes to the Course Platform to improve the UX: ✨ - When you mark a lesson as completed, you automatically navigate to the next lesson! This is the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course Platform Thanks @jamesqquick for this feedback!

🚨 It’s here! After a year in the making, the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course is officially LIVE! 🚀 Build & Ship Modern Production-ready apps with Next.js through 7+ real projects, 50+ interactive demos, quizzes & exercises → nextjscourse.dev 🎈 Use code LAUNCHPARTY to get 50% off (ends Friday!)

🚨 It’s here! After a year in the making, the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course is officially LIVE! 🚀 Build & Ship Modern Production-ready apps with Next.js through 7+ real projects, 50+ interactive demos, quizzes & exercises → nextjscourse.dev 🎈 Use code LAUNCHPARTY to get 50% off (ends Friday!)

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I’m hosting a free 75-minute live workshop to help you level up your Next.js skills! What you’ll learn: ✔️ The 3 pillars of mastering Next.js ✔️ 2 critical best practices most developers miss ✔️ 1 hands-on exercise to make it stick ✔️ Strategies to stay relevant in 2025 and beyond lu.ma/dhtk49rs

I just saved an injured pigeon this morning, how’s your morning going?

This is a really good video by Theo A must-watch! Learn how you can optimize your luck. People who are considered "lucky" are out there trying things www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPw... He covers this well-written article: usefulfictions.substack.com/p/how-to-in...

Today, I outlined the blueprint for the AI SaaS Capstone project in the Modern Fullstack Next.js course I utilized Vercel's AI SDK & designed a framework on top so it’s simpler for you to grasp building AI apps We're also integrating Neondatabase, Prisma, Stripe, among other tools!

Officially launching my Modern Full Stack Next.js Course on August 12th 🚀 Can't wait to show what I have, it has been months in the making You'll ship your own AI SaaS that collects and displays Testimonials as the capstone project Sending a few bonus content to the Waitlist nextjscourse.dev

What an amazing feeling to add this testimonial to my site This is for Developer to Leader course, it's amazing to see a resource I created 2 yrs ago has such a huge impact If you're considering levelling up to a Engineering Leader, you should check this course out! → developertoleader.com

So I hate to admit it, but I think I’m ready to retire from my condo life and move into a bigger house This is just for my dog so that he can live his dream life

Is there a tool that converts Tailwind code to Figma designs?

Vercel AI SDK is the best toolkit ever!! I have a video coming out soon on this But if you are serious about building AI apps, definitely check it out!

OMG I have learned so much more about SVG's in this post!! @joshwcomeau.com, you are a fantastic Educator and I learned a lot more than just SVG's after reading this post 🙌

My react-data-fetching demos have been updated! I have now built the same app 22 times for my workshop where I teach different data loading patterns in React Router, TanStack Router, Next.js, and even a bit of Astro and Sveltekit too. And, of course, how to use TanStack Query with all of them.