Key takeaways:
- Next.js improves React development and deployment
- Next.js is a powerful framework around de-facto standard React
- Front-ends are globally distributed – Next.js supports CDN from the start
- Front-end engineers need short feedback loops
- Fast feedback drives front-end quality
- Adopt new front-end tech one page at a time
- Test in production-like preview builds
- Use headless, visual regression tests for GUI components
- Testing benefits from React being functional and declarative
- The risks and rewards of microservices
- Emerging patterns and systems mitigate microservices risk
