Over the past 10+ months we replatformed the entirety of Payload from an Express + React Router SPA to the Next.js App Router + RSCs, and tomorrow we get to finally show it off

We are so back

I first started learning React about 7 years ago and Next.js shortly after. These are two open-source projects that I greatly admire, and now Payload is outpacing both of them on GitHub. But this is only the beginning—we have big things planned for 2025. Buckle up.

Code-first is the new no-code

This is a true full circle moment for me. My career started in design, not engineering. During that time I’ve used every design tool out there—including Figma. For me, learning to write code meant no design handoff. I could preserve my own design intent. For years I was