Next.js 8 — The React Framework for Production

Hello, Product Hunt! 👋🏻 We are proud today to introduce the production-ready Next.js 8, featuring: - Serverless Next.js - Massive build-time memory usage reduction - Build-time environment configuration - Prefetch performance improvements - Smaller initial HTML size - Improved on-demand entries - Faster port listening in development - Faster Static Export - Head element deduplication - New crossOrigin config option - Removed inline Javascript - Example of API Authentication As always, we have strived to ensure all these benefits are completely backwards compatible. For most Next.js applications, all you need to do is run: `npm i next@latest react@latest react-dom@latest` We are thankful to our community and everyone who has bet on our success. Since our last blog post, we have seen companies like AT&T, Starbucks and Twitch relaunch their public-facing websites and apps with Next.js. Serverless Next.js You can now enable serverless mode in Next.js config, that will give you: - Low-level API for implementing serverless deployment - Every page in the pages directory becomes a serverless function (lambda) - Creates the smallest possible serverless function (50Kb base zip size) - Optimized for fast cold start of the function - The serverless function has 0 dependencies (they are included in the function bundle) - And more! Massive memory usage reduction We have contributed to webpack to improve Next.js's (and the rest of the webpack ecosystem's!) build performance and resource utilization. As a result, we were able to achieve up to 16 times better memory usage with no degradation in performance. Build-time configuration With Next.js 8 we are introducing a new key to `next.config.js` named `env` to provide configuration values to the application. Prefetch performance improvements In Next.js 8 prefetch uses a link tag with `rel="preload"` instead of a script tag. It also only starts prefetching after `onload` to allow the browser to manage resources. DX Improvements - Improved on-demand entries - Faster port listening in development - Faster Static Export - Head element deduplication To get a more in-depth look at all the new features, check our our blog post. Also feel free to join us on Spectrum. Next.js community has over 4,570 members!

Congrats Next.js team! I've been using Next.js since v3 and it has been an amazing experience.

My favorite got to framework just got even better. This was an easy upvote!

Great job, Next.js team!