Instant Navigations in Next.js

Next.js 16.3 is removing that "waiting for the page" feeling from navigation.

— ⚡ Instant Navigations: every route now chooses how it feels on click — stream, cache, or block.

— 🧩 Partial Prefetching: a shell of the route gets cached on the client, so a click renders something instantly while the rest streams in.

— 🐢 Before, the App Router felt fast on the server but sometimes slow when navigating — this targets that exact perception.

— 🎯 It's no longer all-or-nothing: you can decide the behavior route by route, depending on how critical it is.

We've spent years optimizing the server and forget that navigation is UX too. Have you tried this in a project yet? 👇