
r/nextjs

Frontman: open-source AI coding agent that runs inside frontend apps
Frontman is for a specific problem: AI coding agents often edit frontend files without seeing the running app, built for technical people.
Why try it:
- select/click UI before asking for edits
- agent gets DOM, screenshot, logs, routes, source mappings
- works with Astro, Next.js, Vite, WordPress
- open source
Latest release added Astro content collections support.
And it's fully OSS, self hostable etc
We patched 34 Next.js apps for the new RCE advisories in under an hour. Gotchas from going to 16.3.8
GHSA-vcvr-r3jv-pc5j (next/og ImageResponse RCE, 16.2.0 to <16.3.6) landed on Sep 30, on top of the two image optimizer RCEs from Sep 8 (fixed in 15.5.24 and 16.3.3). We run 81 web apps on one box, so we had agents read every repo's lockfile, then bump next, eslint-config-next and @next/* only, build, boot the app the way prod runs it, compare pages and image routes against live, merge and deploy. 30 apps went to 16.3.8 and 4 stayed on 15 and went to 15.5.27.
Things that actually came up:
- 16.3's build-time type check fails with TS5097 on test files that import a .ts path. 16.2 never flagged it. "allowImportingTsExtensions": true fixes it if you already have noEmit.
- sharp moves from 0.34 to 0.35 with the upgrade. In standalone output, check that @img/sharp-libvips-/lib/libvips-cpp.so. is actually in your image. On one app yesterday it was not traced, and every OG image returned 500 with ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED. outputFileTracingIncludes fixes it.
- next-env.d.ts gains an import for .next/types/root-params.d.ts. Commit it, Next regenerates it on every build anyway.
- The default 404 page now shows your site title instead of "404: This page could not be found". Status is still 404.
- eslint-config-next 16 broke one flat config and added two React hooks rules (set-state-in-effect, immutability) that flagged existing components. We set those to warn for the patch.
- A plain re-install can move unrelated packages in the lockfile (bun dropped and re-hoisted a few). Diff the lockfile and keep only next and its own deps, so a security patch stays a security patch.
No runtime breakage in any of the 34. Longer write-up on why speed of knowing is the advantage now: https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/208-post.html