SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 23 min readNext.js Cache Components Migration Guide (2026)You flip on cacheComponents: true expecting a quick performance win, and instead your build explodes with red errors about dynamic, revalidate, and fetchCache not being allowed anymore. Then, once tho00
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 15 min readWhat Is Authentication? A Beginner's Guide (2026)Every time you type your email and password into a login form, something is quietly deciding whether you actually get in. That decision — proving you are who you say you are — is called authentication00
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 23 min readS3 vs Supabase Storage vs Cloudinary (2026 Guide)You're building a Next.js app that needs to store files — user avatars, product photos, PDFs, whatever — and you hit the same wall every developer hits: where do the actual files go? For most apps, st00
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 25 · 18 min readAuth.js vs Better Auth in 2026: Which Should You Use?You're starting a new Next.js project and you need auth. A year ago the answer was simple: "just use NextAuth." That's not simple anymore. NextAuth is now called Auth.js, it's sitting in maintenance m10
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 23 · 21 min readStripe Refunds & Disputes in Next.js 16 (2026)Sooner or later, every Stripe integration hits the same wall: a customer wants their money back, or worse, their bank files a chargeback before they even email you. Most Stripe tutorials stop at "paym10
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 22 · 18 min readnext-mdx-remote-client Guide for Next.js 16 (2026)If you followed our original MDX blog setup guide, you already have a working blog powered by next-mdx-remote. There's just one problem: HashiCorp archived that repo on April 9, 2026. The package stil00
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 10 · 17 min readServer vs Client Components in Next.js 16 (2026 Guide)You add "use client" to the top of a file, TypeScript stops complaining, and everything just... works. So you start adding it everywhere — every component, just in case. A few weeks later your bundle 031
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 9 · 23 min readSession vs JWT: Which Should You Use in Next.js 16?You're building a login flow in Next.js 16, and you hit the question every auth tutorial glosses over: should the logged-in state live in a session or a JWT? Half the guides you find use one, half use00
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 16 min readllms.txt Explained: What It Is, Who Uses It, and How to Add It to Next.jsYou've probably seen a stray llms.txt link in someone's site footer, or noticed a new file sitting next to robots.txt and sitemap.xml on a docs site you visited. Maybe you've even been told "you need 00
SMSyed Muhammad Aliindevstacked.hashnode.dev·Aug 4 · 23 min readFeature Flags in SaaS: A Beginner's Guide with Next.js 16 (2026)You just shipped a new billing page. It works perfectly in your local environment, QA gives it a thumbs up, and you deploy on a Friday afternoon (bold choice). Twenty minutes later, support tickets st00
