Luke Howsam
Software Engineer
App Directory (beta)
You get the latest & greatest from React - better performance and better scalability due to enforcing the way developers lay out code.
Turbopack (alpha)
Faster builds, deploys etc. Given it's in alpha at the time of writing, you probably shouldn't be running it in production right now 😉
New next/image
Images will react more natively on your website. You won't notice it, but Google will. The new image component ships less client side JavaScript and is aligned more with the native image.
New next/font
Font is usually the main culprit for why websites look bad when they first load. This completely resolves this issue. No more comic sans appearing for a couple of seconds after your website first loads
API routes in /app dir
Able to opt in to Edge or Node.js API routes in /app dir