You don’t have to build a browser in JavaScript anymore (Ep. 538)
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What’s new in Next.js 13, how growing demand for front-end applications has made the React codebase “ginormous,” and what’s required to support a sustainable community of open-source contributors.
Ben is joined by Kyle Mitofsky, a Senior Software Engineer on Stack Overflow’s public platform; Kelsey Hightower, Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud; and Guillermo Rauch, cocreator of Next.js. They cover what’s new in Next.js 13, how growing demand for front-end applications has made the React codebase “ginormous,” and what’s required to support a sustainable community of open-source contributors.
Episode notes:
We talk about how Next is bringing image components (opens new window), server components (opens new window), and in-house analytics via split bee (opens new window)—and bundling them all together with Turbopack (opens new window), powered by Rust, our Developer Survey most loved language of 2022 (opens new window)
Guillermo Rauch is the CEO and cofounder of Vercel (opens new window) and cocreator of Next.js (opens new window), an open-source React framework that helps developers build fast, lightweight web applications. The most recent version is Next.js 13 (opens new window). You can find Guillermo on LinkedIn (opens new window).
We previously talked with Guillermo about the security risks of laziness (opens new window), how Next.js mixes static site and SPA functions (opens new window), and the front-end trends that get him excited (opens new window).
Kelsey Hightower is a Distinguished Engineer at Google Cloud (opens new window). Find him on Twitter (opens new window) or GitHub (opens new window), or read about his very personal history with Kubernetes (opens new window).
Kelsey has also distinguished himself on our podcast (opens new window) before.
Kyle Mitofsky is a Senior Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. Find him on Twitter (opens new window) or GitHub (opens new window).
