Next.js 15 & Svelte 5: Major Upgrades Hit the Web Dev World

Jack is away this week speaking at the React Advanced conference in London, so be sure to check out his recorded talk (and all the others) about if React is really dying.

For the news this week, we’ve got a bunch of interesting topics, the first of which is the latest release of Next.js: Next 15. It’s stable and production ready offering React 19 and React Compiler (experimental) support, Turbopack Dev, improvements to caching, and a change to async Request APIs that will allow for simplified rendering and caching in the future. 

Svelte 5 is also officially stable and production ready debuting the new Runes system which offers Svelte users fine-grained reactivity control via Signals. Svelte previously relied on the compiler for reactivity, which could begin to break down for larger apps, so it was rewritten from the ground up and Runes was born.

Finally, vote for this podcast in the State of React survey out now! We’re under the Resources > Podcasts section and would greatly appreciate your support.

News:

• Paige - Svelte 5 is alive
• TJ - Next 15
• Jack’s React Advanced talk

Bonus News:

• Vote for this podcast in the State of React survey (section Resources > Podcasts)!
• The Browser Company who built Arc is now building another new browser
• Underwater server update
• Apple Vision Pro manufacturing cutback
• The confusing state of Apple Intelligence
• Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own

Fire Starters:

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What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - MacBook M3 Pro 16”
• TJ - The Will of the Many & corn mazes 🌽

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