Next.js Conf 2024 Opening Keynote

[music] [music] please welcome to the stage founder and  creator of Next.js and Vercel Guillermo Rauch

[music] good morning everyone and welcome back to  Next.js Conf our fifth annual it's so nice to see you all here in San Francisco today and those  joining us from all over the globe a lot has happened since last year since we last met you  at Next.js Conf it's been amazing we've released five new Next.js releases we've merged over 4,000  pull requests it's a lot of pull requests and

we've welcomed over 570 new community contributors  it's amazing and you've all been busy too you've shared your experiences in Next.js meetups  conferences YouTubes TikToks Kicks I think that's a thing and yes even some hilarious memes on the X  platform the everything app there are some really

good ones I hand curated some of these myself  like go serverless with Next.js but it's "use server" what's up with that so to our incredible  Community thank you so very much and thank you all for coming you've all done incredible work  making Next.js what it is today and today we're celebrating you so thank you all for joining us I  do want to single out amazing contributors such as

autogenerated avatar from GitHub you've killed  it seriously we've gotten some great PRs from those folks so thank you very much but it really  wouldn't be a true JavaScript conference if we didn't talk about you guessed it right npm  numbers of downloads so kudos to you all for firing up those CI/CD processes which is yeah  you've been uh you've been busy with those actions

7 million downloads per week it's pretty  amazing so according to popular surveys like StackOverflow State of JS National Bureau of  Census and Statistics maybe Next.js is the world's most popular frontend framework so many of the  very best sites on the internet are using Next.js and a quarter of those sites have already upgraded  to the App Router it's pretty amazing including

companies like Anthropic PayPal Perplexity xAI  Wayfair and even the most sophisticated website on the world my blog rauchg.com which has 10  blog posts but seriously it's exciting and humbling to see the continued growth and momentum  of Next.js it means that Next.js and its ecosystem is something we can all depend on for the future  and the thing that I personally appreciate and so

does the Next.js team bar none the best thing  we get from our community is feedback feedback is a gift and the most valuable feedback we've  gotten from you all is really all around taming complexity so you don't like complexity I don't  like complexity nobody likes complexity if you're tuning in you don't like complexity either so we  hear you and we wanted to tackle that problem head on so before going on into the things that we've  done let me briefly rant about complexity if I