It has been a year now since we published the inaugural issue of Advanced Photonics Nexus (“APNexus” – www.apnexus.org) in September of 2022. During this time, APNexus has published 64 reviews and research articles from 16 countries. They cover exciting topics of imaging and sensing, nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, quantum optics, and plasmonics. The breadth of topics is reflected in the carefully selected cover articles: “Orbital angular momentum comb generation from azimuthal binary phases” (Vol. 1, Iss. 1), “Centimeter scale color printing with grayscale lithography” (Vol. 1, Iss. 2), “Deterministic -photon state generation using lithium niobate on insulator device” (Vol. 2, Iss. 1), “Relative phase locking of a terahertz laser system configured with a frequency comb and a single-mode laser” (Vol. 2, Iss. 2), “High-repetition-rate seeded free-electron laser enhanced by self-modulation” (Vol. 2, Iss. 3), and “Complex-domain-enhancing neural network for large-scale coherent imaging,” (Vol. 2 Iss. 4). Some of the excellent articles have attracted general and professional press coverage, and have been commented on by internationally renowned scientists, with commentary published in Advanced Photonics, such as “Hyperentanglement goes deterministic and large-scale” (Pooser, doi 10.1117/1.AP.4.5.050502), “High-dimensional orbital angular momentum comb” (Wang, doi 10.1117/1.AP.4.5.050501), and “Accelated hyperspectral imaging via temporal compressive sensing” (Zhang, doi 10.1117/1.AP.5.4.040502).