Mastering Application Performance: Unleashing the Power of useOptimistic Hook!

useOptimistic Hook — Next.js 13

Discover the fascinating world of the useOptimistic hook, an advanced tool that lets you seamlessly incorporate optimistic updates into your application. By leveraging this feature, your app can deliver a remarkably responsive user experience, enhancing its overall performance. Optimistic updates are a powerful technique that ensures users see immediate changes, making the app appear more interactive and engaging. Embrace this cutting-edge approach to elevate your application’s performance and captivate your users with a smoother, more interactive experience!

Let’s dive right into the coding part! By the end of this tutorial, you should have a folder structure like the one below:

useOptimistic Hook Folder Structure

Firstly, we are going to build the APIs and the server actions. If you don’t know what server actions are, you can find more about them here: https://medium.com/@sener3/unleashing-next-js-13-revolutionizing-server-side-processing-with-server-actions-23dc2adf62bf

Let’s create two API routes — one for retrieving the counter value and another for the optimistic counter value:

import db from…