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React Compiler: How to Enable It Without Breaking Your App (2026)

How to enable the React Compiler in Next.js and Vite without breaking your app

The React Compiler is the most useful thing to happen to React performance in years: a build-time tool that inserts the memoization you would otherwise write by hand with useMemo, useCallback, and React.memo. It hit its first stable release (v1.0) in October 2025, Next.js 16 ships a stable top-level toggle for it, and Vite’s current … Read more