Next js 15 with Jimmy Lai and Tim Neutkens

nextjs is an open-source JavaScript framework developed by versel it's built on top of react and is designed to streamline web application development using server side rendering and static site generation the framework's handling of both front-end and backend tasks along with features like API routes and file-based routing have made it an increasingly popular choice in the web dev Community next js15 just released in October of 2024 and introduces significant upgrades including enhanced integration of Turbo pack and support for rea 19 Jimmy Li is a software engineering manager at nextjs and Tim nukin is the tech lead for nextjs and

turbo pack they join the show to talk about nextjs and what's new in version 15 Kevin ball or k ball is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and Engineering leaders he co-founded and served as CTO for two companies founded the San Diego JavaScript Meetup and organizes the AI in action Discussion Group through Laton space check out the show notes to follow kall on Twitter or LinkedIn or visit his website kb.

[Music] LLC hey guys welcome to the show hey thanks for having us yeah good to see you so let's start out a little bit with some quick introductions so let's actually I'll throw to you first Jimmy Jimmy do you want to introduce yourself and your background and how you got involved with next yeah so my name is

Jimmy I'm a French software engineer before for sale I used to work at meta in London used to work on Rea native and on some internal products used to work a lot on web performance and anything related to that like to product infrastructure in general I decided to join versel because I wanted to work with a company that focused on well actually on performance on the web the mission G's Mission really struck me

there in terms of like bringing like the amazing Technologies we added thanks to our companies I didn't start working on next when I joined I used to work on the feature flex but I quickly joined the team back in what was it end of like 2022 and ever since I've been working mostly on the app router a year ago I started managing the team and we've like handled the mostly the 15 Ries and a lot of the the great work team has compettion in the

version 14.1 14.2 yeah that's it on me awesome how about you Tim hey I'm Tim I've been working on Nexus for a while since like 2016 when it first came out as a contributor and eventually joined for sale in 2017 and since then been building quite a lot of different things but mostly working on EXs across all of them and like building out the team and and now

I'm Tech lead for next and trouble pack mostly focus on trouble pack nowadays and yeah trying to get that over the line and into the hands of everyone yeah so the impetus for this is y'all just had a big release do you want to tell us kind of what that was and what's in the box yeah so this release has been a long time coming actually for those not familiar with the re schedule we used to do like really regularly in the past year after so we shipped app prouder with next 13 we were like really

following up on it every month or so with 15 we decided to take a slightly different approach we wanted to take a bit more time to make sure it's really polished and so we released a release candidate back in May and took us quite some time to to ship it because we're now basically in October it's been 6 months we really took the opportunity to bundle as much really nice changes as possible so that we could you know set it as the new Baseline for the AER