Vercel DevRel Team Lead Lee Robinson on Frontend Future and Next.js

This article announces an upcoming live interview event featuring Lee Robinson, the DevRel team lead at Vercel, as part of the "Big Names Face-to-Face" series hosted by ByteDance Web Infra and Juejin. The interview will focus on the future of frontend development and insights from Vercel's perspective.

The article highlights that many prominent developers have recently joined Vercel, including Sebastian Markbage (former React team Tech Lead), Rich Harris (sveltejs author), Donny (swc author), Tobias Koppers (webpack author), and others. It provides background on Lee Robinson, who has over 10 years of development experience and frequently shares programming content online.

The piece includes introductions to both Vercel and Next.js. Vercel is described as a company that developed the Next.js framework and offers a serverless deployment platform with CDN acceleration and third-party service integration, with a current valuation of $2.5 billion. Next.js is presented as a React framework offering features like static rendering, server-side rendering, TypeScript support, and more without configuration.

Event details include the live stream date (February 22, 2022, 8:00-9:30 PM UTC+8), streaming address, and a link to submit questions. The article notes that while the original channel will be in English, a Chinese interpretation channel will be available.