One Next.js Pattern Every Dev Should Know!

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Sharing data with Client Components

Sam Selikoff shared another useful Next.js pattern. It shows how to share server-fetched data with Client Components without blocking the page, by passing a promise through Context and unwrapping it with React's use hook. Especially handy for shared data like auth, feature flags, or request-based values.

Introducing: React Best Practices

The Vercel team has boiled down “10+ years of React and Next.js optimization knowledge” into a suite of Markdown files intended for use by coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode, though you can just as easily read them yourself. The goal is to allow such agents to write better React code without needless handholding.

How to 'Steal' Any React Component

This is more ‘reconstructing a component based upon a lot of clues’, but is nonetheless an interesting look at how to reproduce a component from a production React app without the original source code, using React’s internal data structures (via Fiber) and LLMs to reconstruct things.

Data Fetching Patterns in React Server Components

A practical guide on how data fetching has evolved from client-side fetching to SSR and now React Server Components. It shows patterns like server-owned data with request deduping, sharing data with client components, React Query hydration, and streaming promises with Suspense.

Next.js 16 vs. TanStack Start for E-commerce

Explains the trade‑offs between Next.js’s opinionated, batteries‑included approach and TanStack Start’s more flexible, hands‑on style. It looks at how each one handles things like rendering, data fetching, caching, SEO, performance, hosting costs, and long‑term maintenance.

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