On the heels of the announcements of canary releases for Hyper , Now CLI , and Now Desktop , we are glad to announce the immediate availability of a canary channel for Next.js.

In addition, we are excited to share some of the goals we are currently working on towards the release of Next.js 5!

Link to heading Next.js 5: Bigger Scale

Next.js is designed to present the developer the smallest possible API surface on top of React to make app and website development productive.

Therefore, instead of writing new features or expanding that API, we are focusing on scalability.

We have therefore divided the Next.js 5 roadmap into two broad categories:

Making Next.js perform better with large codebases (single repository)

Making Next.js work better for larger teams (across multiple repositories)

Link to heading The Roadmap

Improved Compilation Speed

Better startup performance (first time you run next )

Better lazy page building performance

Improved Sourcemaps

Accurate sourcemaps for all categories of…