Next.js: Request Insights Lands, DevTools Get a Trace Viewer
The Request Insights feature shipped its DevTools panel and its final tracing PRs on the same day, giving developers a full end-to-end request timeline; meanwhile a cluster of small ESLint and Turbopack fixes patched crashes and correctness gaps.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Next.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next.js
- Published: 2026-07-14T13:11:50Z
- Audio duration: PT2M35S
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Good morning. It's July 14th, 2026, and this is your Next.js briefing.
The headline today is Request Insights, a feature that landed as a coordinated stack of pull requests. The DevTools request panel from PR 93978 shipped alongside the OpenTelemetry span coverage in PR 95765, human-readable span names in PR 95766, and Server Action tracing in PR 95770. Together these give developers a…
Second theme: a run of small but important correctness fixes in the ESLint plugin and Turbopack. Three separate ESLint rules — no-html-link-for-pages, inline-script-id, no-unwanted-polyfillio, and no-css-tags — got patched by VSCodeLover0 for crashes or missed cases: side-effect imports of next/script, valueless…
Worth noting separately: Luke Sandberg's PR 95692 makes the experimental TypeScript CLI checker actually stop when a build is interrupted, escalating to SIGKILL since the native compiler ignores graceful signals. And Tobias Koppers' PR 95579 improves how Turbopack orders CSS modules into chunks, measurably reducing…
What's next: watch for the Server Action tracing PR 95770 to fully supersede 95767, and expect more DevTools polish now that the Request Insights foundation is in. The ESLint…
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