#61: App Router Blog, Vim For React Devs, Date Formatting, View Transitions, URL State

What makes Stormkit a great Vercel alternative – Stormkit is an intuitive, scalable, and cost-effective self-hostable platform for frontend applications. This article goes through the reasons of why you may want to consider Stormkit as an alternative to Vercel.

How I Built My Blog – Josh recently revamped his blog using a cutting-edge tech stack, featuring Next.js 15 with the App Router and React 19. In this post, he walks through the process of building the site and offers tips and tricks to help you create your own developer blog.

How to control a React component with the URL – Amazing article about the importance of having a single source of truth when it comes to state in React.

Reliable date formatting in Next.js – A deep dive on the ins and outs of rendering dates consistently across the server and client spectrum.

Make your Next.js Docker images microscopic! – Some tips and tricks to shrink the size of your Next.js app inside a Docker image

► React Server Components: A New Way to Build Fast and Interactive Web Apps – If you haven’t hopped on the RSC train yet, this is a great introduction to what they are and how to use them

next-view-transitions v0.3.2 – Use CSS View Transitions API in Next.js App Router. The latest release brings the useTransitionRouter hook, which is an alternative to useRouter with built-in support for View Transitions

Cloudflare joins OpenNext to deploy Next.js apps to Workers – OpenNext allows you to host Next.js on other platforms while still supporting all features. Together with SST, Cloudflare offers an adapter that streamlines the deployment of Next.js apps on their platform

Announcing Inngest self-hosting – If you’ve ever needed to implement background jobs or schedule tasks in your Next.js app, you’ve likely come across Inngest. While it’s been open source for some time, self-deployment wasn’t really feasible—until now.

Vim for React Developers – A bite-sized course to get you quickly productive with Vim.

Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers – Implement Next.js-style Partial-Pre-Rendering in a normal React SSR app and serve it with Cloudflare Workers

Replacing React code with CSS :has selector – Looking into what the new CSS :has selector is and how it can be used to improve our React code. Includes practical and beautiful examples.