When our 12-person frontend engineering team’s sprint velocity dropped to 18 story points per 2-week sprint in Q3 2024, we knew our monolithic Next.js 13 codebase and manual build pipeline had hit a wall. Three months later, after migrating to Next.js 17 and Turborepo 2.0, we were consistently delivering 29 story points per sprint—a 61.1% velocity increase that let us ship 3 major features we’d previously pushed back for 6 months.

🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats

⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,253 stars, 30,994 forks

📦 next — 155,273,313 downloads last month

⭐ vercel/turborepo — 30,283 stars, 2,314 forks

📦 turbo — 56,038,834 downloads last month

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