The Cloudflare-Astro merger and Next.js 16.1's innovations herald an architectural shift towards frameworks inseparable from their edge runtime, making edge-native the default.
The Cloudflare-Astro merger and Next.js 16.1's innovations herald an architectural shift towards frameworks inseparable from their edge runtime, making edge-native the default.
Technical analysis of January 2026 framework releases: Next.js 16.1, Astro 5.16, and SvelteKit 2.49 leverage WebAssembly and compiler optimisations to achieve significant performance gains in boot times, LCP, and INP metrics.
