Next.js 13 HMR Is Up To 700 Times Faster

Next.js 13 comes with some awesome features. Let’s explore them three of them!

Table of content:

• Up To 700 Times Faster Hot Module Reload
• You Don’t Have To Set A Tag As A Link Child
• Next.js 13 Prevents Font Fines
• More Improvements
• Bonus

Honestly, I wanted today to cover what’s new in React. However, it seems nothing is going in for six months.

On the other hand, Next.js, a framework based on React is rocking! On 25/10/2022 stable Next.js 13 was announced. Since that day almost every day, a new subversion is released. The amount of people involved and schedule is just breathtaking.

Let’s look inside the Next.js to learn what the new version has to offer!

1. Up To 700 Times Faster Hot Module Reload

I have to say that feature caught my attention immediately. I hate working with a frontend projects that take more than several seconds to update the UI when I change something. It never made sense to my why anyone would accept yo wait so long.

Fortunately, things are going in the right direction. Latest versions of Angular, Vue, are great at providing an instant hot module…