We are proud today to introduce the production-ready Next.js 6.1 , featuring: Increased hot reloading reliability Codebase improvements Next.js codemods In addition to the Next.js 6.1 release, we're excited to announce that nextjs.org is now open source . Link to heading Improved hot reloading reliability In versions before Next.js 6.1 Next.js implemented react-hot-loader on behalf of the user. This library keeps React state between hot reloads. In doing so react-hot-loader adds a few non-standard behaviors to React, for example, it will ignore shouldComponentUpdate and the element type ended up being a proxy component instead of the actual React component. To make sure Next.js is as close to default React as possible we have removed react-hot-loader as a dependency, this makes sure development and production mode are closer to each other in behavior. Do note that Next.js's hot reloading feature was not removed, hot reloading has always been handled by Next.js internally.…