#93: WeAreTurboNow, Lee Robinson leaving Vercel, Next.js Adapters, Vercel buys NuxtLabs, Liquid Glass React

Vercel Ship 2025 Keynotes – All Vercel Ship 2025 keynotes, customer panels, sessions, and workshops are now available to watch on demand

5 things I learned from 5 years at Vercel – Bittersweet news: After an incredible five-year run, Lee Robinson is leaving Vercel. He shares some hard-won lessons from his time there, covering everything from work/life harmony to why "swooping and pooping" is a terrible leadership strategy

Download a free ebook covering code splitting, lazy loading, image optimization, rendering strategies, Core Web Vitals, and best practices for building high-performing Next.js apps. Ten chapters packed with practical techniques, real-world examples, and open-source tools to help you make your Next.js app faster and more user-friendly. Prepared by the Blazity team.

► Next.js Adapters: Build Once, Deploy Everywhere – An intro to Next.js Deployment Adapters. They give hosting providers a stable API to create optimized outputs for their platforms. No more reverse-engineering the .next folder.

Next.js Promise Racing – Ever wanted to tell your server, "Try to fetch this, but if it takes more than a second, just give up and I'll show a spinner"? This post shows an interesting pattern using Promise.any and Suspense to do exactly that

New PR: generate route types manifest – It looks like we're finally getting first-class typed routes. This PR adds a feature to auto-generate types for all your routes, making PageProps and LayoutProps globally available

How to test React Server Component – This article shares a clever, but little hacky, solution to render and test your RSCs

xmcp – A framework for building and shipping MCP applications with TypeScript. Designed with DX in mind, it streamlines development and lowers the barrier to entry for anyone looking to create and deploy powerful tools on top of the Model Context Protocol ecosystem

Liquid Glass React – Apple’s switch to a glass-based design kicked off a mini trend in the UI and design world. Want your React apps to look more glassy? Check out this package.

Next.js Boilerplate – The super-comprehensive Next.js Boilerplate just hit version 5. Key changes include a 46% reduction in CI time, the replacement of Husky with LeftHook, the addition of Knip for dependency checking, and an update to Zod version 4

Announcing TypeScript 5.9 Beta – The TypeScript 5.9 beta is out. tsc --init finally gives you a clean, minimal tsconfig.json. You can also now expand types directly in the hover tooltip.

More:

• Prisma v6.11.0 – Pricing calculator, Embed Prisma Studio, Rust-free ORM
• shadcn CLI 2.8.0 with support for local files
• AI SDK v5.0.0-beta – experimental Agents abstraction

► What Every React Developer Should Know About Signals – A great starting point if you're curious about Signals. The creator of SolidJS explains the history and why they're so different from React's approach.

The world’s longest React hooks migration – A case study on migrating a large-scale, legacy React application from class components and MobX to functional components and hooks

More updates:

• WE ARE TURBO NOW – All “AreWeTurboYet” tests are passing for Next.js production builds
• NuxtLabs joins Vercel – creators of Nitro and Nuxt, are joining Vercel
• Vercel Sandbox now supports sudo
• Vercel pricing update