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Real-World Next.js

Real-World Next.js

By : Michele Riva
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Real-World Next.js

Real-World Next.js

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By: Michele Riva

Overview of this book

Next.js is a scalable and high-performance React.js framework for modern web development and provides a large set of features, such as hybrid rendering, route prefetching, automatic image optimization, and internationalization, out of the box. If you are looking to create a blog, an e-commerce website, or a simple website, this book will show you how you can use the multipurpose Next.js framework to create an impressive user experience. Starting with the basics of Next.js, the book demonstrates how the framework can help you reach your development goals. You'll realize how versatile Next.js is as you build real-world applications with step-by-step explanations. This Next.js book will guide you in choosing the right rendering methodology for your website, securing it, and deploying it to different providers, all while focusing on performance and developer happiness. By the end of the book, you'll be able to design, build, and deploy modern architectures using Next.js with any headless CMS or data source.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Next.js
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Part 2: Hands-On Next.js
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Part 3: Next.js by Example

Customizing _app.js and _document.js pages

There are certain cases where you need to take control over page initialization, so that every time we render a page, Next.js will need to run certain operations before sending the resulting HTML to the client. To do that, the framework allows us to create two new files, called _app.js and _document.js, inside our pages/ directory.

The _app.js page

By default, Next.js ships with the following pages/_app.js file:

import '../styles/globals.css'
function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return <Component {...pageProps} />
}
export default MyApp

As you can see, the function is just returning the Next.js page component (the Component prop) and its props (pageProps).

But now, let's say that we want to share a navigation bar between all the pages without manually importing that component on each page. We can start by creating the navbar inside components/Navbar.js:

import Link from 'next/link...

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