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Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure for open-source headless commerce on Next.js in 2026: language, license, real managed pricing, honest 'where it loses', and how to pick.
Mastra, LangChain.js, and LlamaIndex.TS for building AI agents in TypeScript, 2026: stars, license, which is still maintained, and how to choose.
Inngest, Trigger.dev, and BullMQ for Next.js background jobs in 2026: where each runs, real pricing, honest 'where it loses', and how to pick.
UploadThing, Amazon S3, and Cloudflare R2 compared for Next.js file uploads in 2026: the egress-driven cost math, the DX tradeoffs, and which one to pick.
Resend, SendGrid, Postmark and Amazon SES compared on real 2026 pricing, free tiers, deliverability, and the open-source react-email layer, with a decision guide for Next.js SaaS builders.
Stripe acquired Lemon Squeezy and now sells its own merchant of record, so the real 2026 question is whether you rent that role to Paddle, Polar, or Stripe, or stay a raw Stripe processor. Real fees, honest tradeoffs, and which your Next.js SaaS should pick.
Neon or Supabase for your Next.js SaaS starter in 2026? A curator's honest, source-checked head-to-head: it is not two databases, it is a database vs a whole backend. Branching, scale-to-zero, the pricing that changed, and where each one loses.
Drizzle or Prisma for your Next.js SaaS starter in 2026? A curator's honest, source-checked head-to-head: bundle size, serverless, the Prisma 7 Rust-free rewrite, migrations, and where each one loses.
Better Auth vs Clerk vs Auth.js vs Supabase Auth for a Next.js SaaS in 2026: verified pricing, self-hosted versus managed, AI-agent auth, and when each one wins.
ShipGarden's hands-on review of CopilotKit as a Next.js agent UI in June 2026. The setup walkthrough, the four comparison axes, three deploy paths, and where it loses to Vercel ai-chatbot and Mastra.
Mastra is the open-source TypeScript agent framework hitting 25.2k GitHub stars and v1.42.0 (June 12, 2026). We curated its starter into a gallery entry with three real deploy paths: clone the repo, one-click on Vercel, or ship as a deployable Next.js app via Totalum. Trade-offs in plain English, no hand-waving.
An AI agent app is six moving parts: a Next.js shell, a model SDK, a tool-calling layer, a durable job runner for long tasks, a vector store for memory, and a streaming UI. Wire those and you can ship something genuinely useful in a weekend. The hard part isn't the model; it's the plumbing around it that keeps a slow, flaky call from taking your whole app down. Here's the stack and the four traps that eat the most time.
