After migrating 14 production applications from Next.js API routes to React Server Components (RSC) with tRPC over the past 18 months, our team reduced average client-side bundle size by 62%, cut p99 API latency by 47%, and eliminated 83% of redundant data fetching logic. Here’s the unvarnished data, code, and tradeoffs. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ trpc/trpc — 40,146 stars, 1,599 forks 📦 @trpc/server — 12,773,438 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (197 points) Three Inverse Laws of AI (239 points) Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (117 points) EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old (122 points) GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents (40 points) Key Insights RSC + tRPC reduces client-side data fetching code by 78% on average across migrated apps tRPC v11 (stable as of Q3 2024) adds native RSC support with zero-config…