🍿 Frontend Snacks: Catching Bugs, Shipping Faster, and Fresh Tools You Need

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As you can see in the screenshot here, Next.js now will auto complete your routes and throw a compile time error if you link to a route that does not exist.

One of the advantages of using frameworks like TanStack was Type Safety but with this feature in Next.js kinda makes the framework invincible.

This is a opt-in feature so you would need to add the following in your Next.config.ts file.

🎥 There's more I cover in the video breakdown here.

How I Pick my Tech Stack in 2025 ($0/month), watch the video here.

​FFMPeg 8.0 is out is an amazing tool that helps you convert, record, stream video and audio. Here's a handy command:

​This One Line of Code Made My App 5x Faster - use this Next.js function to speed up server actions, server components and middleware!

Vercel AI Gateway is now generally available, no need to have a separate provider account such as OpenAI, Claude etc. simply use the AI Gateway.

My Next.js Course Platform has over 300+ lessons and upgrading to Next.js 15.5 has been a Game Changer.

Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows using Trigger.dev and it's officially out of Beta.​

​e18e (Ecosystem Performance) is an initiative to improve the performance of JS packages.

So it's official, we're getting a new display type for masonry ✨, but it will not be `display: masonry`

​Component Composition is great, by Dominik, TanStack Query aka React Query Maintainer

​An AI Manifesto - Guiding responsible AI in development and collaboration.

🎁 Free Workshop: Sept 3 @ 12 pm EST: I’m running Engineering Manager Blueprint workshop, a 90-minute live session with my 8-part framework to succeed as a Engineering Leader, where to focus now, and how to create value early. Grab your spot here.

🎥 This One Line of Code Made My App 5x Faster ⚡ Watch here:

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🎥 Watch the Next.js 15.5 video breakdown here: