Mastering Tables and Modals in Next.js 16: Patterns That Preserve State
When developing administrative UIs, one of the most common patterns is a table to navigate database records and modals to view or edit individual entries. In Next.js, this can be achieved in several ways — not only with Parallel Routes, which are the officially recommended approach in the documentation. In this article, I’ll share three different implementation strategies I explored and discuss their pros and cons based on real-world use cases.
