#107: use cache + next-intl, Solito 5, Directives TS Plugin, Document-Driven-Development, Vercel’s Future of Programming, Octoverse 2025

Implementing Next.js 16 'use cache' with next-intl Internationalization – Next.js 16 adds a new 'use cache' directive for caching React Server Components, but it currently clashes with next-intl. The post explains the problem, shows a practical workaround, and previews the upcoming next/root-params API that will fix this.

What's new in Next.js 16 – Breaks down the key updates in Next.js 16, including async params for better rendering, Turbopack as the core bundler, stable caching APIs, and the rename of middleware to proxy.

►Watch this if you hate React Server Components – Theo reacts to Nadia Makarevich’s blog comparing different rendering methods in React and Next.js.

Document-Driven Development: How I Built a Production Blog Without Writing a Single Line of Code By Hand – Shows how you can build a full Next.js 16 blog without writing code by hand. The author first wrote detailed documentation for every part of the app, then used AI tools to read those docs and generate the code.

Encapsulate as much state as possible in your component – This post argues how a simple “loading → success” button is cleaner and easier to test when it handles its own async state, compared to prop-driven state passed down from above. The same principle is later applied to a more complex Autocomplete component, where encapsulating debouncing, cancellation, and pagination logic keeps parent components simpler and less error-prone.

Solito 5 – Solito is a library that helps you share navigation and routing logic between your Next.js and React Native apps. Version 5 fully embraces the “web-first” mindset by removing react-native-web from its dependencies. Everything now works out of the box on the web, using real Next.js components like next/link and next/image. You get full access to normal web props without special setup.

Civic Auth + Next.js sample app – A complete, ready-to-run Next.js project showing how to add secure auth with Civic Auth in minutes. Includes signup/login flows, wallet integration, and best practices.

Storybook 10 – The latest Storybook release drops CommonJS for an ESM-only setup. Other highlights include new module automocking (built with Vitest), TypeScript-friendly CSF Factories (now in Preview), and more. It’s also ready for Next.js 16 and Vitest 4.

typescript-plugin-directives – A TypeScript Language Service Plugin that provides IDE-level awareness for "use …" directives such as "use server", "use client", "use cache", and more.

React Compiler Marker – A VSCode/Cursor extension that shows which React components are optimized by the React Compiler.

Fork data like you fork code – How Tigris brings Git-style workflows to datasets, letting you clone massive buckets instantly for experimentation and multi-agent workflows. Zero copies. Fork 100s of TBs in milliseconds.

Beyond the Platform: Is Vercel Designing the Future of Programming Languages? – Vercel is blurring the line between frontend and backend. Server Actions turn server calls into normal function calls, and ‘use workflow’ hides the complexity of reliable long-running tasks behind a short directive. The article explores how these platform features hint at a new generation of programming tools.

Your URL Is Your State – A reminder on how URLs can manage app state just like global stores or contexts, but with built‑in features like shareability, history, and bookmarking.

Octoverse 2025 – Octoverse is GitHub’s yearly report that shows what’s happening in the world of software development. For the first time ever, TypeScript topped GitHub’s charts, beating Python and JavaScript. Copilot adoption hit 80% among new users, AI‑related repos passed 4 million, and India became the biggest open source contributor base.

Scraping Next.js web sites in 2025 – Seems like Next.js pages got trickier to scrape thanks to React Server Components and serialized “flight data” hidden in self.__next_f.push() calls. This post explains how that data can still be decoded and scraped in Python using a library.