How a Broken Logo Animation Taught Me How Next.js Really Boots

A deep dive into pre-hydration rendering, critical CSS, vanilla JS, and what it actually means to contribute to open source By Sulagna Ghosh | Open Source Contributor, Meshery I came to this bug expecting to spend 20 minutes adding a few lines of CSS. Several days later, I had learned more about how Next.js actually works than I had in months of using it. I had navigated a Turbopack internal error, discovered why CSS imports can arrive too late, traced a root cause through 2022 commit history, u