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Real-World Next.js
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Real-World Next.js

by Michele Riva
February 2022
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
6h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4: Organizing the Code Base and Fetching Data in Next.js

Next.js initially became popular thanks to its ability to make it easy to render React pages on the server instead of the client only. However, to render specific components, we often need some data coming from external sources such as APIs and databases.

In this chapter, we will first see how to organize our folder structure, as this will be the determinant for keeping the Next.js dataflow neat when managing the application state (as we will see in Chapter 5, Managing Local and Global States in Next.js), and then we will see how to integrate external REST and GraphQL APIs, both on client and server-side.

As our application grows, its complexity will inevitably increase, and we ...

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