How streaming helps build faster web applications

This post details how the Next.js App Router utilizes streaming to improve web application performance. It explains how streaming allows for progressive UI delivery from server to client, preventing slow data sources from blocking initial UI display and enabling parallel loading of other assets. The post highlights the benefits of colocating compute next to data origins and introduces Partial Prerendering as a technique to generate a static shell for faster initial loading. It also discusses how streaming is applied in AI applications and LLMs to provide a better user experience by displaying responses as they are generated.