Next.js: Turbopack Takes Center Stage & Performance Wins
A massive day with 20 merged PRs and 22 commits! The standout story is Turbopack's performance optimizations that cut compaction times by 22-25%, plus the symbolic renaming of HMR endpoints from "webpack-hmr" to just "hmr" - marking Turbopack's rise as the default bundler. Tim Neutkens and the team also laid crucial groundwork for Node.js streams support.
Duration: PT4M21S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Next.js.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Next.js
- Published: 2026-03-20T10:13:38Z
- Audio duration: PT4M21S
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Hey there, builders! Welcome back to another episode of the Next.js podcast. I'm your host, and wow - do we have a packed episode for you today. March 20th brought us an absolutely incredible day of development activity with twenty merged pull requests and twenty-two additional commits. This is the kind of energy…
Let's dive right into today's big story, because there's something really significant happening here. Luke Sandberg just delivered what I can only describe as a performance masterpiece with the Turbopack compaction optimizations. We're talking about a twenty-two to twenty-five percent reduction in compaction times!…
And speaking of Turbopack taking center stage, Tim Neutkens made what might seem like a small change but is actually pretty symbolic - renaming the HMR WebSocket path from "/_next/webpack-hmr" to simply "/_next/hmr". This isn't just housekeeping, folks. It's Next.js officially acknowledging that Turbopack is now the…
Tim's been incredibly busy today, and I have to highlight the foundational work he's doing for Node.js streams support. These aren't flashy user-facing features yet, but they're the kind of infrastructure changes that enable amazing things down…
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