The Next.js 16 Cheatsheet You’ve Been Waiting For


Hey Reader,

Last week I told you I was about to drop something big…

Well, today’s the day. 🎉

I’ve been building something to finally clear the fog around Next.js 16 - all the new caching rules, data-fetching patterns, rendering behaviors, and how Server Components actually work in real apps.

Introducing your Next.js 16 Cheatsheet + Free 3-Part Mini-Course 💫

👉 Click here to get it (free)

The moment you download it, you’ll unlock a short email course that starts tomorrow.

It’s designed to help you actually understand the cheatsheet, not just save it to your desktop and forget about it.

Here’s what I’ll walk you through over the next few days:

  • What is Next.js? And should you care? How is it different from other new frameworks like TanStack Start?
  • How Server Components really execute
  • The role of Cache Components and Partial Pre-rendering in performance (and when to avoid them)
  • And how all 3️⃣ come together to build fast, production-ready apps

If Next.js has ever felt “too much” or like it changes every time you blink, this is going to make everything feel… finally sane.

Download → Get the Cheatsheet → Get the free course.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think 🍿

🚀 Latest Frontend News

There was a massive Cloudflare Outage, check this technical post mortem on what happened.

New Next.js Upgrade CLI Command

Google Antigravity, experience it here

  • Agent-first IDE powered by Gemini 3 Pro
  • Browser control to test your apps automatically
  • Agent Manager to orchestrate parallel agents

Ben Holmes dropped a new statement management library for React - a solution as powerful as Zustand or Redux, without the complexity.

🤑 If you have a product and want to make more sales by making your product more accessible globally, check out ParityKit.com (I made 20% more sales just this month) - Plus there is a Black Friday sale!

If you build a Chrome Plugin, there is no hot reloading nor manually refresh the page on every change, this tool fixes that.

GitVex - a fully open-source Serverless Git Hosting platform

Optimize Your API with Smart Caching ⚡️ check this visual deep dive

The Netflix Secret inside React 19.2


What do you think of today's Newsletter? Simply click on one of the links below.

🔥 Love it!

👎 You can do better



All past newsletters
can be found here.

You can email me at me@kulkarniankita.com to advertise/sponsor the newsletter.

For those curious, I write all my emails using Convertkit.

Ankita Kulkarni

Join 9200+ subscribers reading by weekly personalized Newsletter that helps developers level up their skills through weekly Frontend and Leadership Snacks. You get a deep dive into a Tech topic, Actionable tips to excel in your career and a toolbox!

Read more from Ankita Kulkarni
Next.js bundle analyzer

Hey Reader, This week, we're putting your Next.js app under the microscope, what's slowing it down? This along with the latest news, can AI really debug complex React/Next.js bugs? How OpenClaw and Anthropic are enabling AI collaboration, 3 New Coding Models dropped and more. Let's dive in! 🍿 Our Weekly Snack: What's Really Slowing Down Your Next.js App? Have you ever wondered why your Next.js app feels sluggish or takes forever to load? 🐌 The new experimental Bundle Analyzer in Next.js 16.1...

git worktree

Hey Reader, A lot of you have been asking me how I’m able to stay so productive and get a lot of work done so I finally broke down my exact workflow and setup in a short video. 🍿 Our Weekly Snack: Run Multi Agents stress free with Claude Code Git work trees let you check out multiple branches at the same time each in its own folder all backed by the same repo. Instead of one working directory and constant branch switching, you get parallel workspaces. Each work tree has its own isolated...

skills vercel

Hey Reader, I just dropped a super exciting video that covers all 29 Common Next.js Mistakes that I have seen a lot of developers make (including senior developers). PRESENTED BY GRAPHITE Ship AI-generated code without getting buried in massive PRs. Stacking breaks large changes into small, logical PRs that your team can review and merge in parallel, making development faster and smoother. Graphite is the tool that makes stacking effortless. It, Organizes your work, Highlights clean diffs,...