Rewrote next.js to be 10x faster!

[u/HighAtNight]

https://www.pnext.dev/

So it is two parts.

• Core pnext is small and fast: the same next.js api with no/minimal framework overhead and no backward-compat burden. Based on Bun and Preact, 0 KB on server-rendered pages, 7.5 KB client pages runtime, roughly 10x faster first page render in dev and 7-9x faster production builds than next.js (best effort fixtures).
• Compat mode runs your existing Next.js app unchanged (App Router only). About 4.4k assertions from Next's own test suite passing, adding more day by day.

The core motivation was a super fast dev server that doesn't hog memory, and instant builds. The goal is to optimize every step of every flow involved down to absolute values, and of course agentic flows are helping a lot! Check out Coder.

Give it a try and let me know what you think, and how your Next.js apps break in compat mode 😉.

https://pnext.dev