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Newsletter highlights
Folders introduced (and reorganized) in PayloadCMS
Minor updates in Next.js
Bug fixes and new utilities in Tailwind CSS
And more!
PayloadCMS
The big news here is 3.39.1 and 3.40.0 have been released. 3.39.1 introduced Payload Folders, which allow you to organize your Admin UI and query the folders as a collection on the frontend. Very useful.
It moved from admin.folders: true in 3.39.1 to just folders: true in 3.40.0, so watch out for that!
A new TextStateFeature was also introduced in 3.39.1, which allows you to add custom colors and backgrounds to your Lexical RichText. I haven’t gotten it working in client components, yet, but stay tuned for a video walkthrough of this soon.
Featured Tutorial
The Payload CMS form builder plugin is extremely powerful and deserves its own special callout. If you’re struggling to build out your form builder plugin, you’re not alone. That’s why I created this video: to help you completely configure forms to start accepting form submissions into your CRM. You’ll set up the backend, the frontend, and configure your integrations, and then you’re good to go! Watch now:
Next.js
A lot of work is still being done on the canary branch of 15.4. It seems like there’s a new commit every day as the Next.js team works fast to launch the next minor release.
In the midst of all that canary noise, 15.3.3 was released. The change from 15.3.2 to 15.3.3 is admittedly lacking, so there’s not much to write about here.
Vercel, on the other hand, has several large improvements ship these past two weeks.
You now have faster CDN proxying
Rate limiting came to the Hobby plan
Vercel Blob is now out of beta with insights available.
TailwindCSS
Tailwind v4.1.8 was released. This change isn’t as big as the few releases before it, but we can expect better error messages for when @apply fails to…well, apply.
Several bug fixes were shipped as well, including fixing an error that appeared when searching for tailwindcss or updating dependencies in a monorepo and deprecating order-none in favor of order-0.
In other news
Cloudflare
No new news for Cloudflare this time.
Railway
You may receive a bounty for solving threads with Railway. Get ready to hunt bugs.
Trial projects will be turned off after 30 days.
Google Cloud Platform is now labeled as Legacy to favor Railway Metal
A new free plan is coming soon! I’m looking forward to testing this one out.
Recent Videos
Here’s some recent content from my YouTube channel