💎 Next 13.1.6: Metadata Support Coming Soon

The support for metadata is coming to the Next.js framework. The new way of handling it will make writing SSR sites ranking higher in Google way easier.

We still don’t know what’s up with React 19 but boy, we know a lot about Next.js. The tempo of development of the frontend - backend Javascript framework based on React is astonishing. Just a while ago I was covering Next 13, and Turbopack, and now we are several subversions behind.

So today I will briefly tell you what's important in Next.js 13.1.3 to 13.1.6 so you will be up to date with it.

Next 13.1.3 was released in January 2023, and it includes mostly bug fixes, but also some improvements. Let’s dig into the three most important ones.

Next 13.1.3, .5 a .6 didn't come with anything interesting in particular. There was mostly bug fixes and chores.

💎 Metadata Initial Support

In Next 13.1.4 we find the first initial canary support for Metadata handling. There is already beta documentation available for that one. For people who struggled with the separate handling of metadata from the rest of the composition API it will be a relief to actually be able to handle metadata…