We have scaffolded the web application using Next.js 16 and React 19 within our pnpm workspace, fully integrating it with existing @visual-studio packages. As part of this setup, a throwaway API route has been introduced to validate that @sparticuz/chromium and puppeteer-core operate correctly within the Vercel serverless runtime. This proactive validation ensures our rendering pipeline assumptions hold true before we commit to deeper architectural work. Developer Spike

Initialized Next.js 16 web application and added serverless Chromium verification spike - subh05sus/visual-anim-studio