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Andrew ClarkandGitHub 3de2d1a213 Unify allow-runtime with Partial Prefetching (#96106)
Removes the "allow-runtime" prefetch config, and turns its behavior on
implicitly wherever Partial Prefetching is enabled.

The original motivation for "allow-runtime" was to give apps more
control over server costs triggered by prefetches. Until a route
explicitly opts in, prefetches would only be served from the CDN, not
from the server. The problem, though, was it was very confusing to know
when to add or remove this configuration. The incentive for many apps
was to add it everywhere, with no clear signal for when to remove it.

Our updated thinking is that Partial Prefetching itself already provides
sufficient protection against runaway prefetching costs: per-link
prefetches only happen on Link components that explicitly opt in with
the prefetch prop.

The optimizations landed earlier in this stack also make allow-runtime
less necessary: on pages where all the content is statically renderable,
prefetches are served from the static cache and no runtime request is
ever issued; only a page that accesses non-static data is prefetched at
runtime.

The upshot of this decision is that runtime versus static becomes an
internal optimization; the same content gets prefetched regardless of
whether or how Next.js is able to optimize it.
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// The Speculative-phase counterpart of app/fully-static/page.tsx: a page
// that accesses no runtime data at all, on a Partial Prefetching route.
// Partial Prefetching segments require runtime-completeness in every phase,
// and the Speculative phase only processes this segment when a link opts in
// (the consuming test uses `prefetch={true}`; non-eager routes are otherwise
// shell-only by design).
//
// Every prerender of this route is clean, so the route tree prefetch always
// carries the static-prefetch hint: the Speculative phase attempts a static
// prefetch of this segment instead of going straight to a runtime one. The
// static responses are always complete (a runtime request would return
// nothing more), so the attempt is sufficient and no runtime request fires
// at all. (Note this relies on the server emitting static data for Partial
// Prefetching segments, which it does unconditionally.)
export const prefetch = 'partial'
export default function Page() {
return (
<main>
<p id="page-content">Speculative-static page content</p>
</main>
)
}