--- title: How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week | daily.dev description: Cloudflare engineers rebuilt Next.js from scratch on top of Vite in under a week using AI (Claude via OpenCode), producing an open-source drop-in replacement... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-rebuilt-next-js-with-ai-in-one-week-2wzfed63i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare engineers rebuilt Next.js from scratch on top of Vite in under a week using AI (Claude via OpenCode), producing an open-source drop-in replacement... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-rebuilt-next-js-with-ai-in-one-week-2wzfed63i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2wZfEd63I.png og:image:alt: How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week **[Cloudflare](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare)** · 15 min read · 131 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Cloudflare engineers rebuilt Next.js from scratch on top of Vite in under a week using AI (Claude via OpenCode), producing an open-source drop-in replacement called vinext. It builds production apps up to 4.4x faster with Vite 8/Rolldown and produces client bundles 57% smaller than Next.js 16. vinext deploys directly to Cloudflare Workers with a single command, supports both App Router and Pages Router, includes ISR via KV, and covers 94% of the Next.js 16 API surface backed by 1,700+ Vitest tests and 380 Playwright E2E tests. A novel 'Traffic-aware Pre-Rendering' (TPR) feature uses Cloudflare zone analytics to pre-render only the pages that actually receive traffic, avoiding the linear build-time scaling problem of large Next.js sites. The project cost roughly $1,100 in Claude API tokens and raises broader questions about which software abstractions exist for human cognitive limits versus genuine architectural necessity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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