Frontend

some things that have been making nextjs faster/cheaper for me lately:
- prefetch your links with their <Link>
- don’t use their <Image>, use <img> + a CDN(I like Cloudinary)
- if you use RSCs you need to use suspense and proper data loading patterns(and caching) otherwise your app becomes sooo slow 
- keeping certain values either strictly static or on the client

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anything I’m missing? also I feel like a lot of this just comes down to general best practices

*also* just waiting for those turbopack-enabled builds someday, still crazy to me sometimes that I’m waiting like 2-3 mins for a nextjs build on vercel lol

you can still fetch data on the client where it makes sense

for "feeling faster" optimistic updates (either through useOptimistic or custom implementation)