Next.js 16 for dummies

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Check our site performance, it’s showing off more than we are. That’s Next.js 16

Turbopack

Finally, the default. No config. No flags. Nothing experimental. Just faster refreshes, faster builds, and a dev server that doesn’t make coffee breaks a requirement. We LOVE this thing. Check out the Roboto Studio site. If nothing flickers, freezes, or bursts into flames, that’s Turbopack. If it does break, we’ll just call it an “intentional performance experiment.”

Cache you can actually control

Opt-in caching means no more ghost pages or stale data haunting you 3 deploys later.
use cache → done.

Simple. Predictable. No sacrifices to the caching gods at 2 a.m.

Navigation that doesn’t feel like a full reload

Smarter prefetch. Layout deduplication. Instant transitions.
For the first time, navigation in Next.js feels like the slick demos.

DevTools + MCP

This is the sleeper feature. Your AI can debug your app with REAL context.
It knows your routing, caching, server logs, and stack traces. Finally, no more copy-pasting your entire app into ChatGPT just to figure out why /pricing exploded.

React 19.2

Cleaner hooks. Smoother UI. Fewer rerenders. We’ll take it.

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This is great! Thank you so much for sharing with the community :slight_smile:

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Cheers @pawlean, we’ve been loving the update so far. One thing we can’t wait to share more about is the Workflow Development Kit. We’re cooking up something very custom and very fun in-house.

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Looking forward to hear more about it!

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Nimish, I was curious to major the web performance of Roboto’s site.

But I am not able to generate pagespeed.web.dev report for some reason.

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Am I missing anything? Are you able to generate?

Looking forward to knowing more about this.

Best,
Chintan

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Hey Chintan,
I am able to generate the report; there are no blockers for me. And the site is doing absolutely fine. Thanks for pointing it out.
Have a great day ahead.

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Great read, I had already upgraded my personal project to Next 16, however, I wish I read this first! Now I am gonna go through all my changes and make some improvements based on what I read here, appreciate ya’ll combing through everything so thoroughly!

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