diff --git a/packages/next/client/app-index.tsx b/packages/next/client/app-index.tsx
index 552b2c00f739887..c8ede9eaa67dac4 100644
--- a/packages/next/client/app-index.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/client/app-index.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 import '../build/polyfills/polyfill-module'
 // @ts-ignore react-dom/client exists when using React 18
 import ReactDOMClient from 'react-dom/client'
-import React from 'react'
+// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
+import React, { experimental_use as use } from 'react'
 import { createFromReadableStream } from 'next/dist/compiled/react-server-dom-webpack'
 
 import measureWebVitals from './performance-relayer'
@@ -16,9 +17,6 @@ declare global {
   const __webpack_require__: any
 }
 
-// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
-const use = (React as any).experimental_use
-
 // eslint-disable-next-line no-undef
 const getChunkScriptFilename = __webpack_require__.u
 const chunkFilenameMap: any = {}
@@ -127,7 +125,7 @@ function createResponseCache() {
 }
 const rscCache = createResponseCache()
 
-function useInitialServerResponse(cacheKey: string) {
+function useInitialServerResponse(cacheKey: string): Promise<JSX.Element> {
   const response = rscCache.get(cacheKey)
   if (response) return response
 
@@ -143,7 +141,7 @@ function useInitialServerResponse(cacheKey: string) {
   return newResponse
 }
 
-function ServerRoot({ cacheKey }: { cacheKey: string }) {
+function ServerRoot({ cacheKey }: { cacheKey: string }): JSX.Element {
   React.useEffect(() => {
     rscCache.delete(cacheKey)
   })
@@ -171,7 +169,7 @@ function Root({ children }: React.PropsWithChildren<{}>): React.ReactElement {
   return children as React.ReactElement
 }
 
-function RSCComponent(props: any) {
+function RSCComponent(props: any): JSX.Element {
   const cacheKey = getCacheKey()
   return <ServerRoot {...props} cacheKey={cacheKey} />
 }
diff --git a/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx b/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx
index e2950f45588eab4..9bd71e4376d6d48 100644
--- a/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/client/components/app-router.client.tsx
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ import { useReducerWithReduxDevtools } from './use-reducer-with-devtools'
 /**
  * Fetch the flight data for the provided url. Takes in the current router state to decide what to render server-side.
  */
-export function fetchServerResponse(
+export async function fetchServerResponse(
   url: URL,
   flightRouterState: FlightRouterState,
   prefetch?: true
-): Promise<FlightData> {
+): Promise<[FlightData: FlightData]> {
   const flightUrl = new URL(url)
   const searchParams = flightUrl.searchParams
   // Enable flight response
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ export function fetchServerResponse(
     searchParams.append('__flight_prefetch__', '1')
   }
 
-  const promise = fetch(flightUrl.toString())
+  const res = await fetch(flightUrl.toString())
   // Handle the `fetch` readable stream that can be unwrapped by `React.use`.
-  return createFromFetch(promise)
+  const flightData: FlightData = await createFromFetch(Promise.resolve(res))
+  return [flightData]
 }
 
 /**
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ export default function AppRouter({
             window.history.state?.tree || initialTree,
             true
           )
-          const flightData = await r
+          const [flightData] = await r
           // @ts-ignore startTransition exists
           React.startTransition(() => {
             dispatch({
diff --git a/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.client.tsx b/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.client.tsx
index 5dfa3fb80fd4b58..8de34509af60f84 100644
--- a/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.client.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/client/components/layout-router.client.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 'client'
 
-import React, { useContext, useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
+import React, {
+  useContext,
+  useEffect,
+  useRef,
+  // TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
+  experimental_use as use,
+} from 'react'
 import type {
   ChildProp,
   //Segment
@@ -19,9 +25,6 @@ import {
 import { fetchServerResponse } from './app-router.client'
 // import { matchSegment } from './match-segments'
 
-// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
-const use = (React as any).experimental_use
-
 /**
  * Check if every segment in array a and b matches
  */
@@ -230,7 +233,7 @@ export function InnerLayoutRouter({
      * Flight response data
      */
     // When the data has not resolved yet `use` will suspend here.
-    const flightData = use(childNode.data)
+    const [flightData] = use(childNode.data)
 
     // Handle case when navigating to page in `pages` from `app`
     if (typeof flightData === 'string') {
diff --git a/packages/next/client/components/reducer.ts b/packages/next/client/components/reducer.ts
index d8c6cb2c3bec889..60c33a9916938cf 100644
--- a/packages/next/client/components/reducer.ts
+++ b/packages/next/client/components/reducer.ts
@@ -6,13 +6,11 @@ import type {
   FlightSegmentPath,
   Segment,
 } from '../../server/app-render'
-import React from 'react'
+// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
+import { experimental_use as use } from 'react'
 import { matchSegment } from './match-segments'
 import { fetchServerResponse } from './app-router.client'
 
-// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
-const use = (React as any).experimental_use
-
 /**
  * Invalidate cache one level down from the router state.
  */
@@ -233,7 +231,7 @@ function fillCacheWithDataProperty(
   newCache: CacheNode,
   existingCache: CacheNode,
   segments: string[],
-  fetchResponse: any
+  fetchResponse: () => ReturnType<typeof fetchServerResponse>
 ): { bailOptimistic: boolean } | undefined {
   const isLastEntry = segments.length === 1
 
@@ -734,7 +732,7 @@ export function reducer(
           cache,
           state.cache,
           segments.slice(1),
-          (): Promise<FlightData> => fetchServerResponse(url, optimisticTree)
+          () => fetchServerResponse(url, optimisticTree)
         )
 
         // If optimistic fetch couldn't happen it falls back to the non-optimistic case.
@@ -765,7 +763,7 @@ export function reducer(
       }
 
       // Unwrap cache data with `use` to suspend here (in the reducer) until the fetch resolves.
-      const flightData = use(cache.data)
+      const [flightData] = use(cache.data)
 
       // Handle case when navigating to page in `pages` from `app`
       if (typeof flightData === 'string') {
@@ -956,7 +954,7 @@ export function reducer(
           'refetch',
         ])
       }
-      const flightData = use(cache.data)
+      const [flightData] = use(cache.data)
 
       // Handle case when navigating to page in `pages` from `app`
       if (typeof flightData === 'string') {
diff --git a/packages/next/server/app-render.tsx b/packages/next/server/app-render.tsx
index ae12b0335b5b404..f115df782da17ef 100644
--- a/packages/next/server/app-render.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/server/app-render.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import type { IncomingHttpHeaders, IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from 'http'
 import type { LoadComponentsReturnType } from './load-components'
 import type { ServerRuntime } from '../types'
 
-import React from 'react'
+// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
+import React, { experimental_use as use } from 'react'
 import { ParsedUrlQuery, stringify as stringifyQuery } from 'querystring'
 import { createFromReadableStream } from 'next/dist/compiled/react-server-dom-webpack'
 import { renderToReadableStream } from 'next/dist/compiled/react-server-dom-webpack/writer.browser.server'
@@ -29,9 +30,6 @@ import { FlushEffectsContext } from '../shared/lib/flush-effects'
 import { stripInternalQueries } from './internal-utils'
 import type { ComponentsType } from '../build/webpack/loaders/next-app-loader'
 
-// TODO-APP: change to React.use once it becomes stable
-const use = (React as any).experimental_use
-
 // this needs to be required lazily so that `next-server` can set
 // the env before we require
 const ReactDOMServer = shouldUseReactRoot
@@ -139,6 +137,10 @@ function preloadDataFetchingRecord(
   return record
 }
 
+interface FlightResponseRef {
+  current: Promise<JSX.Element> | null
+}
+
 /**
  * Render Flight stream.
  * This is only used for renderToHTML, the Flight response does not need additional wrappers.
@@ -147,19 +149,18 @@ function useFlightResponse(
   writable: WritableStream<Uint8Array>,
   req: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>,
   serverComponentManifest: any,
-  flightResponseRef: {
-    current: ReturnType<typeof createFromReadableStream> | null
-  },
+  flightResponseRef: FlightResponseRef,
   nonce?: string
-) {
-  if (flightResponseRef.current) {
+): Promise<JSX.Element> {
+  if (flightResponseRef.current !== null) {
     return flightResponseRef.current
   }
 
   const [renderStream, forwardStream] = readableStreamTee(req)
-  flightResponseRef.current = createFromReadableStream(renderStream, {
+  const res = createFromReadableStream(renderStream, {
     moduleMap: serverComponentManifest.__ssr_module_mapping__,
   })
+  flightResponseRef.current = res
 
   let bootstrapped = false
   // We only attach CSS chunks to the inlined data.
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ function useFlightResponse(
   }
   process()
 
-  return flightResponseRef.current
+  return res
 }
 
 /**
@@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ function createServerComponentRenderer(
     >
   },
   nonce?: string
-) {
+): () => JSX.Element {
   // We need to expose the `__webpack_require__` API globally for
   // react-server-dom-webpack. This is a hack until we find a better way.
   if (ComponentMod.__next_app_webpack_require__ || ComponentMod.__next_rsc__) {
@@ -251,10 +252,10 @@ function createServerComponentRenderer(
     return RSCStream
   }
 
-  const flightResponseRef = { current: null }
+  const flightResponseRef: FlightResponseRef = { current: null }
 
   const writable = transformStream.writable
-  return function ServerComponentWrapper() {
+  return function ServerComponentWrapper(): JSX.Element {
     const reqStream = createRSCStream()
     const response = useFlightResponse(
       writable,
diff --git a/packages/next/types/index.d.ts b/packages/next/types/index.d.ts
index 25b63fe25533161..28866d91b134c3b 100644
--- a/packages/next/types/index.d.ts
+++ b/packages/next/types/index.d.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ declare module 'react' {
   interface LinkHTMLAttributes<T> extends HTMLAttributes<T> {
     nonce?: string
   }
+
+  // TODO-APP: check if this is the right type.
+  function experimental_use<T>(promise: Promise<T>): Awaited<T>
 }
 
 export type Redirect =