#101: Next.js Conf 25, React Won, Deployment Adapater Docs, fukusu, AI SDK Tools, AI Elements, Debugging with Cursor

Next.js Conf returns Oct 22 – Next.js Conf 2025 is taking place this October 22, both in person in San Francisco, as well as online. We’re expecting the launch of Next.js 16, plus a stable release of all the new caching features Vercel’s been polishing over the past few months

React won by default, and it's killing frontend innovation – A look at how React is no longer winning on technical merit but because it’s the default choice. The author argues this reflex decision is creating a monoculture that hurts the entire web development ecosystem

Arcjet - Painless security for developers – Implement bot protection and signup spam protection natively in code.

Quick SEO Guidelines for Your Next.js App – Walks you through the important SEO techniques for any Next.js app, explaining how to handle metadata, robots.txt, image optimization, and performance for better results

𝕏 Debugging Next.js issues with Cursor – Lee explains his process for restructuring a Next.js docs site. He moves MDX files and uses server components to fix performance issues and create a better user experience using Cursor

React Server Components (RSCs) support across frameworks and libraries – A simple website to compare the level of React Server Components support across several popular frameworks, including Next.js, Vite, Waku, and RedwoodJS

PR: Deployment Adapters API documentation – Vercel just dropped the first docs for the deployment adapter interface they announced back in April

AI SDK Tools – Extend the Vercel AI SDK with this collection of utilities for building production-ready applications. The tools are designed to help you go beyond simple chat, by providing solutions for state management, debugging, and streaming structured, type-safe data to your frontend.

𝕏 AI Elements – The AI Elements toolkit gets a major upgrade. Highlights include a new file attachment system for prompt inputs, a structured Artifact component for displaying generated content, and an "Open in Chat" dropdown for exporting queries.

fukusu – A self-hosted middleman that connects the UploadThing SDK to your own storage provider, starting with Cloudflare R2

tw-prose – CSS-only version of Tailwind Typography plugin for Tailwind CSS v4 with all prose variants.

Escape the vendor-locked in edge-runtime! Try Sevalla with $50 credit now. Your PaaS from the future – Prefer the power of a full Node.js environment? Get lower bandwidth costs and predictable pricing combined with real human support by developers. No seats, no surprise serverless bills. Ever.

Cloudflare API outage due to useEffect – Cloudflare’s Dashboard and a set of related APIs were unavailable or partially available for an hour on Sep 12. The culprit was a useEffect hook that fired on every render, flooding their API and taking down the dashboard. The post-mortem details the timeline, the response, and the improvements being made to prevent a repeat

Animating with Tailwind CSS – This tutorial shows you how to combine Motion with Tailwind to create interactive animations, make them adapt to different screen sizes, and how to fix stuttery animations

How to keep package.json under control – Argues that a huge dependency list isn't always a sin, but a reality of building complex apps. The author shifts the focus from just cutting dependencies to the art of managing them wisely

Scale to one: How Fluid solves cold starts – Vercel explains its approach to solving cold starts by combining techniques like 'scale to one' (keeping one instance always warm), Fluid compute (reusing instances for concurrent requests), predictive scaling, bytecode caching, and rolling releases to prevent deployment spikes