Engineering a site at the speed of breaking news
The Washington Post elections team migrated to Next.js and Vercel for the 2022 US midterm elections to handle real-time data updates across thousands of federal, state, and local races.
Many Vercel and Next.js users deal with large swaths of data. But few wrangle data in the way The Washington Post Elections Engineering team does. Knowing their platform must be fast and visually compelling—all while handling constant updates from thousands of federal, state, and local elections—The Post moved to Next.js and Vercel for the 2022 US midterm elections. Read more