I finally moved a production app from the Next.js Pages Router to the App Router. The real data-fetching and layout rewrite, plus what annoyed me.
After two years shipping both Zustand and Redux Toolkit in React apps, here's how I actually decide, plus the migration path most teams miss.
I turned on the React Compiler in a real Next.js app, deleted a pile of useMemo and useCallback, and watched what broke. Honest field notes…
I switched a Next.js app from Prisma to Drizzle last spring. Here's how I now pick between the two TypeScript ORMs on real serverless projects.
How I stopped writing Next.js API routes for mutations, what Server Actions actually replaced, the bugs they caused me, and where I still keep API…
I rebuilt a side project on TanStack Start after rage-quitting Next.js. Here's where Start fits my brain better, and where Next.js still wins for me.
Why tRPC v11 has become my default for small-team TypeScript apps, what a procedure actually looks like, and where I still write plain REST handlers.
My honest take on Vercel AI SDK v5 after three production projects, plus the useChat and tool-calling gotchas I wish someone had warned me about…
Next.js 15 flipped App Router caching from opt-out to opt-in. What changed for fetch and GET route handlers, why it is safer, and how I…
Drizzle vs Prisma in 2026: my honest take after six months in production on Next.js, Hono on Workers, and one boring Node service on a…