7 Next.js 16 Caching Bugs That Compile Fine and Break Silently in Production

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<h2> <strong>Introduction</strong> </h2> <p>You ask AI to fix a fetch. It does. Types pass. The component renders. You push.</p> <p>Then dev crawls to a stop. Or prod serves a

<p>In time based revalidation, an expiry date is added to cache entries. However, when a cache entry expires (becomes stale) it does not update automatically. There are no server

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