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

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Weekly Snack: Next.js 15.5 Type Safety 🍿

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.

🚀 Latest Frontend News

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.

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