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Using Next.js as a backend for your frontend

Most people reach for Next.js because they want to render a UI — Server Components, layouts, streaming HTML, the whole App Router experience. But the

Every time a user clicks something in a Next.js app that triggers a Server Function, there's a gap. The network round-trip takes an unknown amount of

Most developers treat next build as a black box. You run it, you wait, and either it prints a green checkmark or it doesn't. If it fails, you scrol

A use cache directive tells Next.js that something should be cached. cacheLife tells it for how long, and — less obviously — _how that durati

Caching data is only half the problem — the other half is invalidating exactly the right subset of it when something changes, without wiping out ever

Next.js 16 introduced Cache Components, a new caching model built around the use cache directive that makes caching an explicit, opt-in decision ra