Drizzle joins PlanetScale, Prisma Next, Better Auth 1.5, react-doctor, next-md-negotiate, Vercel Queues, Activity Component

The Next Evolution of Prisma ORM

Prisma has shared an early look at Prisma Next, a complete rewrite built in TypeScript. It brings a cleaner query API, a type-safe SQL builder, streaming support, extensions, and a new migration system based on graphs. Prisma 7 remains the production recommendation for now but Prisma Next is being built in the open and will eventually become Prisma 8

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You Can Just Ship Agents: Architecting for the Agentic Era | Dom Sipowicz, Vercel

How are teams building reliable, production-ready agent systems without reinventing orchestration from scratch? Dom Sipowicz (Vercel) walks through what it takes to ship agents using the Vercel AI Cloud and the new Workflow Development Kit — from architecture decisions to production deployment.

Recorded live at the Frontend Forward Blazity London Meetup, February 2026.

📙 Articles / Tutorials / News

React is changing the game for streaming apps with the Activity component

This post shows how the new <Activity> component in React 19.2 helps preserve component state when UI sections are hidden. Using a video player example, it demonstrates how to keep playback progress when switching tabs and how to pause the player properly using useLayoutEffect

Error rendering with RSC

This post explains how each of React's three environments (RSC, SSR, and the browser) responds to errors, how Suspense boundaries change the behavior, and why the browser is ultimately the best place to handle them

Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

In last week’s issue we covered how a Cloudflare engineer used AI agents to rebuild much of Next.js with Vite instead of Turbopack, creating an experimental project called vinext that makes it easier to deploy Next.js apps on Cloudflare. This post explores what it could mean for the Next.js ecosystem and how AI might disrupt commercial open source strategies

𝕏 Handle a blocking component in Next.js

A quick look at two ways to deal with components that slow down page rendering in Next.js

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📦 Projects / Packages / Tools

Better Auth 1.5

A huge release with 70+ features and 200+ fixes. Adds a new npx auth CLI, a full OAuth 2.1 provider, Electron support, typed errors with i18n, Cloudflare D1 support, and a self-service SAML SSO dashboard. Some breaking changes, so review before upgrading

react-doctor

A CLI tool from the creator of Million.js. Run one command and get a full health report on your React project. It scans for issues across security, performance, architecture, and correctness, then gives you a 0–100 score with actionable diagnostics you can pass straight to a coding agent to fix

next-md-negotiate

This small tool lets your Next.js app return Markdown to LLMs and HTML to browsers using the HTTP Accept header

airbroke

The open source error catcher just shipped a big update. Version 1.1.92 introduces an MCP server, letting you explore and triage errors from an LLM conversation. Also includes Sentry support, a Next.js 16 upgrade, a UI redesign, and more hosting options

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⚡️ Sponsor: Tigris Data

A terminal user's next interface to object storage

Stop wrestling with verbose cloud commands: install @tigrisdata/cli, then tigris login and start uploading, listing, and copying objects with UNIX-like simplicity — built for developers who live in the terminal.

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🌈 Related

Drizzle joins PlanetScale

The Drizzle team is becoming part of PlanetScale. Their shared focus on performance and developer experience makes the move a natural fit. Drizzle will continue as an independent open source project with PlanetScale’s support

► The Future of TypeScript

Theo explains how TypeScript grew beyond its original purpose and is now slowing down under massive codebases. To solve this, Microsoft is porting the compiler to Go

► Radix UI → Base UI (in 3min)

Radix UI is no longer actively maintained and the team is now working on Base UI. This video walks through how to migrate in four simple steps

Vercel Queues now in public beta

Vercel Queues lets you send messages from your Next.js routes and process them later with automatic retries. This is useful for handling slow or important tasks (like order processing) without blocking requests. It's now in public beta and starts at $0.60 per 1M operations