Next.js Weekly #118: Agentic Future, Portless, Virtual Scrolling, Geist Pixel, React’s useTransition, next-mdx-remote-client

🔥 Hot Building Next.js for an agentic future The Next.js team shares how they improved the framework to work better with AI coding agents. With MCP integration, improved logging, and tools like agents.md and next-devtools-mcp , agents can now see runtime errors, routes, and internal state more clearly React’s useTransition: The hook you’re probably using wrong If your UI freezes while typing, this guide shows how useTransition can help. It also compares useTransition with useDeferredValue , and shows when debouncing is still the better choice If you wanna get these updates in your inbox every week, just subscribe to the newsletter 📙 Articles / Tutorials / News Removing Next.js Taught Me Why Frameworks Are Still Essential Even for AI After reading claims that tools like Claude Code make frameworks useless, the author rebuilt a Next.js app using only HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. At first, everything worked. But over time, the structure began to fall apart. The experiment showed tha