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Jay Khatri
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Summary

Next.js, a popular framework among developers, can be enhanced by enabling production server-side sourcemaps, which are files that convert transpiled or compiled code back to its original form, facilitating error tracing by allowing developers to see the original code. Sourcemaps offer benefits such as improved security by keeping the original source code off production servers and significant bandwidth savings by compressing codebases, sometimes reducing their size by up to 40%. While client-side sourcemaps in Next.js can be enabled easily through a configuration setting, enabling server-side sourcemaps requires modifying the webpack configuration, which can be challenging for those less familiar with it. Products like Highlight.io provide tools to automatically integrate sourcemaps, enhancing error monitoring by providing detailed stack traces, and offering support through their community platform.