How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.
*This post was updated at 12:35 pm PT to fix a typo in the build time benchmarks. Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt the most popular front-end framework from scratch. The result, vinext (pronounced "vee-next"), is a drop-in replacement for Next.js, built on Vite, that deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command. In early benchmarks, it builds production apps up to 4x faster and produces client bundles up to 57% smaller. And we already have customers running it in production. The whole thing cost about $1,100 in tokens. The Next.js deployment problem Next.js is the…
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