Happy New Year! As we begin the year, I have dropped an exciting build for you on Building a Full Stack AI SaaS with Next.js 16, React, Hono.js, Tailwind that helps you find your AI Learning Partners based on your Learning Goals.

Make sure to subscribe to my Youtube channel, my goal for this year is to cross 100k subscribers so help me make it happen 💪.

The source code alongside cheatsheet is completely free! so enjoy and let me know what you think.

PRESENTED BY CLERK

Meet the Clerk MCP Server 👋

How many times has your AI assistant given you outdated or incorrect auth code? 🔁 or repeated the same prompt over and over?

Well, Clerk just solved that with the Clerk MCP Server.

It’s a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that plugs directly into Claude, Cursor and others so your AI can pull accurate, up-to-date Clerk SDK snippets and best practices directly from the docs.

You can ask things like:
​→ “Set up Auth in Next.js”
​→ “Create a B2B SaaS with organizations and roles”
→ “Protect API routes with Clerk”

The MCP server ensures your AI assistant is working off Clerk’s source of truth, not hallucinated functions.

And trust me, I tried the MCP Server and it works beautifully ✨

The cherry on top 🍒

It’s completely free to try!

​Next.js Serverless Functions are great but when you have too many of them, it starts to get clunky. That is where Hono comes in play.

❤️‍🔥 Hono is a lightweight and utlrafast backend framework. You can achieve everything that Next.js Serverless Functions offer in Hono and more.

It gives you a powerful middleware and error handler.

Here is how,

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When to Pick Hono over Next.js? When you,

→ Have too many API Routes, it's easier to manage

→ Need a dedicated Middleware and Error Handler

→ Have use same API in different runtimes like Node.js, Deno or Bun

→ Would like to move to Serverless functions like Vercel Node Functions, AWS Lambdas, Cloudflare Workers, etc.

Want a deep-dive in Hono and Next.js? Check out this 6+ hour free AI SaaS Course I just dropped.

There are many buzz words in AI, Lee Rob breaks it down in 7mins: Cursor rules, MCP servers, sub-agents and more.

Why TanStack AI split AI adapters into their own package, a thoughtful breakdown straight from the TanStack Team.

🔥 A Hot Take by Dan Abramov: Codebases failure has less to do with architecture and more to do with people.

​Bun vs Deno vs Node.js in 2026 why your JavaScript runtime choice actually matters now.

Why we should support Open Source projects, we can all learn from the Tailwind story here.

​The 8 Trends that will define Web dev by LogRocket.

The Best strategy to share data between Server and Client Components, by Sam Selikoff from the Next.js team.

Free Lesson : What are Server Components? So many of you asked for this so here you go, making it free for the weekend.

What do you want to learn or see more of? I’m planning my content for the year ahead - YouTube videos, tutorials, deep dives, and courses.

Share topics, tools, or challenges you’re facing, and I’ll use this to shape what I create next.

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