Vercel's main website, once a single large Next.js application, serves both our website visitors and logged-in dashboard. But, as Vercel grew, this setup revealed opportunities for improvement. Build times grew, dependency management became more intricate, and workflows needed optimization. Minor changes triggered full builds, affecting isolated development and CI pipelines. It was clear a change was needed.
Last October we introduced v0—a generative user interface system powered by natural language and AI. Users generated over four million designs, creating everything from sophisticated dashboards to polished marketing pages. Now, v0 is like having an expert programmer sitting next to you. It's an assistant that specializes in web technologies and frameworks to help you generate functional code and UI from best practices, migrate or debug existing code, or learn to code for the first time. Starting today, v0 is available to teams of all sizes, with plans designed to help you collaborate and scale securely. v0 Team and v0 Enterprise plans offer security features like SSO and, for Enterprise, the ability to opt out of data training, while helping you share and reuse knowledge and generations across your whole team.
At Vercel Ship, we introduced the new Web Application Firewall (WAF), an application-layer firewall that complements our platform-wide firewall. This enables our customers to implement custom or managed rulesets, such as protection against the OWASP Top 10 risks. Since its release, Vercel’s WAF has blocked billions of malicious requests, demonstrating its resilience and reliability across a wide variety of use cases, from small startups to large enterprise deployments.
Grep allows developers to quickly search code across over 500,000 public git repositories. With the acquisition, founder Dan Fox will also be joining Vercel’s AI team to continue building Grep to enhance code search for developers.
The AI SDK is an open-source toolkit for building AI applications with JavaScript and TypeScript. Its unified provider API allows you to use any language model and enables powerful UI integrations into leading web frameworks such as Next.js and Svelte.
At Vercel, we believe in the power of partnership and collaboration to drive innovation and mutual success. One in two sales and project delivery is done in collaboration with our partners. Last month, over 35 partners sponsored and supported Next.js Conf—our annual open-source conference—where over 1,000 people gathered in San Francisco and tens of thousands online from around the world. From championing an open web, supporting industry alliances, to developing joint features that enhance customer and user experiences, we're achieving more together.
When developers push code, Vercel’s framework-defined infrastructure analyzes the codebase and intelligently provisions cloud resources. When requests come in, Vercel’s infrastructure instantly routes them to the nearest data center over a high-speed, low-latency network, delivering a response right back to the user. Vercel handles all of this behind the scenes. But understanding how your framework code powers the infrastructure—from deployment to request handling—gives you insight into how Vercel’s components work together, and enables you to further optimize user experiences. Here’s how Vercel manages requests at every stage.
The Frontend Cloud is designed for developers and teams that care deeply about user experiences. Whether you're serving billions of users or building your first project, the Frontend Cloud helps you remove friction from the development and delivery process. This allows you to focus on building your product instead of managing and configuring the infrastructure required to make it work.
MotorTrend—a Warner Bros. Discovery company and the world’s leading media company on all things automotive—needed a digital experience as powerful as the vehicles they showcase. Bogged down by a legacy tech stack, their development team faced frustratingly long build times and a cumbersome release process. They knew a complete redesign wasn't the answer—they needed a platform upgrade.
When major political developments unfold, millions rush to news websites, putting immense pressure on digital infrastructure. With global audiences, slow-loading websites or crashes during a major event can be catastrophic for a news organization.
Hive is Vercel’s low-level untrusted and ephemeral compute platform—designed to give us the control needed to securely and efficiently manage and run builds. Since November 2023, Hive has powered Vercel’s builds, enabling key improvements like enhanced build machines and a 30% improvement in build performance. The platform operates on the fundamental assumption that we’re executing potentially malicious code on multi-tenant machines, requiring it to be safe, reliable, performant, and cost-effective. It’s architected to handle multiple use cases and can be composed in different ways depending on what’s needed. Most recently, Hive allowed us to reduce provisioning times for Secure Compute customers from 90 seconds to 5 seconds, while also improving their build speeds. We built Hive because we needed finer control and more granular management to continuously improve Vercel’s infrastructure, to meet the growing demands of our customers and to fulfill our vision of delivering the best development experience in the world.
Our fifth annual Next.js Conf finished yesterday, where we shared our research and upcoming improvements to the framework, as well as what's new in the community and Next.js ecosystem. Over 1,000 people in the Next.js community gathered in San Francisco and tens of thousands around the world watched online to see what's new with Next.js.
v0 is a powerful tool for generating high-quality UIs and code, and it's also an educational asset for designing and creating on the web. It leverages deep integrations with libraries and modern frameworks like Next.js and React. Whether you're looking to scaffold a new project, fetch data, or create 3D graphics, v0 is designed to meet all your frontend development needs. To get the highest quality generations, you need to be able to craft input prompts to guide v0 well. The better you guide v0 and understand its strengths, the more accurate and relevant the responses you'll get. In this post, we’ll look at how you can get the most out of v0’s core features, UI generation abilities, code generation, and developer support.
With its compiler-first approach, fine-grained reactivity, and ability to integrate with any JavaScript project, Svelte stands apart from other frameworks. At Vercel, we're big fans of Svelte—deeply invested in its success and constantly working to make our platform the best place to build and deploy Svelte apps. With the arrival of Svelte 5, let's explore what makes this release exciting.
The prestigious BNP Paribas Open, held annually in Indian Wells, California, attracts top tennis talent and a global audience. To match its world-class status, the tournament required a significant digital upgrade, enabling dynamic, real-time tracking and engagement with hundreds of players for their fanbase of millions.
