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Migrating to the Next.js App Router

By: MAYANK LALEngineering / React28 September 20247 min
Migrating to the Next.js App Router

The transition to React Server Components (RSC) represents the biggest shift in the React ecosystem since Hooks. Migrating our flagship application to the Next.js App Router was not a simple weekend task, but the results were undeniable.

Zero JavaScript by Default

The beauty of the new architecture is that components execute on the server and ship purely as HTML. We drastically reduced our client-side bundle size, resulting in near-instant First Contentful Paint (FCP) metrics across our entire suite of tools.

"We stopped sending heavy logic to the user's phone, and let our servers do what they were built to do."