My Firebase Studio/IDX Workspace – Backend Unreachable

Has anyone else had their Project IDX/Firebase Studio workspace die after moving to Next.js 16.2.0?

Even after rolling back to 16.1.7, my “N” dev-overlay icon is gone and all my database redirects just hang on a white screen. It looks like the internal proxy can’t talk to the dev server anymore.

I’ve tried the “nuclear option” (deleting .idx, .config, .cache, and all node_modules) across 4 different accounts, but the backend remains unreachable. It feels like the 16.2.0 upgrade corrupted the workspace’s networking layer or port forwarding rules.

If any Firebase/IDX community leads are around, I’d appreciate a look at whether the new React 19/Next 16 binaries are causing a conflict with the IDE’s internal proxy.


I got same kind of issue in my another project where in each api call or sever action backend is being non reachable and sever got crashed and being again and again showing me “restarting prototype”