Providing The Best User Experiences on the Web With Vercel- BONUS
Feb 3, 2023
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Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel, talks about NextJS 13 and Vercel's commitment to offer the finest user and development experience. They discuss features like Turbo Pack, optimizing build systems, handling data fetching in React components, server vs client components, and upcoming releases and updates for Vercel and Next JS.
Next.js 13 introduces components for images and fonts, optimizing delivery for visually stable and high-performance sites.
Turbopack, Vercel's new build system, streamlines development workflows by eliminating unnecessary recomputation and optimizing caching for near-instant feedback and improved productivity.
Deep dives
All Trails Plus: Plan Your Outdoor Adventures with Confidence and Ease
All Trails Plus offers a comprehensive toolkit for outdoor enthusiasts to plan their hikes, rides, or runs. With features like the Distance Away feature, users can quickly discover new trails in their area, spend less time driving, and maximize their time on the trail. All Trails Plus also provides immersive trail previews and 3D views, allowing users to get a clear picture of what to expect before starting their journey. Additionally, the app allows users to download maps for offline use, ensuring they never get lost, even without an internet connection. With a focus on optimizing the delivery of images and fonts, All Trails Plus helps users create visually stable and fast-loading websites. It provides developers with a set of components that address common challenges and ensure an optimal user experience. By offering all these features and more, All Trails Plus is empowering outdoor enthusiasts to make the most of their time outdoors and explore new trails with confidence.
Next.js 13: Bringing Powerful Tools and Improvements for Developers
Next.js 13 introduces exciting new tools and improvements for developers. The release centers around the introduction of components in the toolkit, specifically images and fonts. These components address crucial challenges in delivering images and fonts to websites. With optimizations for layout shift prevention and faster initial page load, Next.js 13 enables developers to create visually stable and high-performance sites. The framework also incorporates a new routing system with the app directory and server components, providing developers with better support for nested routes, improved layout options, and the ability to offload processing to the server for enhanced performance. As the release focuses on incremental adoption, developers can gradually transition their applications to leverage the new features while maintaining compatibility with existing code. With Next.js 13, developers can unlock a range of benefits and improvements to enhance their web development experience.
Turbopack: Revolutionizing Build Systems for Faster and More Efficient Development
Turbopack, Vercel's new build system, introduces a game-changing approach to streamline development workflows. Built on the foundation of Rust, Turbopack is designed to eliminate unnecessary recomputation and optimize caching to improve build times. By utilizing intelligent caching and leveraging a graph of dependencies, Turbopack avoids redundant computations and provides developers with near-instant feedback during local development. With future plans to extend support to production builds, Turbopack aims to revolutionize the build process by significantly reducing build times and improving developer productivity. By taking advantage of Rust's native infrastructure, Turbopack delivers top-notch performance and reliability, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to optimize their development workflows.
Edge Functions: Empowering Developers with Serverless Edge Computing
Vercel's Edge Functions unleashes serverless edge computing capabilities, providing developers with a powerful tool to run lightweight compute logic at the edge of the network. By leveraging a subset of Node.js APIs, Edge Functions enables developers to run code with exceptional performance and minimal cold start times. Edge Functions has proven to be a game-changer for a wide range of use cases, from server rendering entire applications to building cost-effective API endpoints. With its simple setup and familiarity with Node.js, Edge Functions offers developers an accessible and efficient solution for serverless computing. Going beyond traditional serverless offerings, Edge Functions offers near-instant cold start times and scalability at a competitive cost. With the general availability of Edge Functions, developers can take advantage of this powerful tool to optimize their applications and deliver exceptional user experiences.
Lee Robinson is the VP of Developer Experience at Vercel. Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. He joins Chuck on the show to talk about NextJS 13 and their company. He goes into great detail about how they continue to offer the finest user and development experience. Additionally, they talk about Vercel's features. Links
