Incremental Static Regeneration Explained
A mental model for stale-while-revalidate at the page level, with diagrams that finally make sense.
This is placeholder body copy. In a real post there would be an argument here, built one paragraph at a time, with the kind of small detours that make a technical essay feel like it was written by an actual human.
The repository this page lives in exists to demonstrate behavior of the Next.js router, so the content is intentionally boring. Any similarity to real insight is entirely coincidental, if occasionally welcome.
If you are reading this from a prefetch-triggered hover, congratulations, the link worked. If you are reading it after a full navigation, that also counts, and you have learned something about how caches behave under load.
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