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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 8: Using a Custom Server

Next.js is an incredibly powerful framework. In the first seven chapters of this book, we've been able to create some nice server-side rendered web applications without really caring about tweaking and customizing the web server. Of course, there are few chances for us to discuss implementing a Next.js application inside an Express.js or Fastify server in a real-life scenario, but knowing how to do so is likely to be handy on many occasions.

Talking for myself, in the past years, I've created dozens of large-scale web applications using Next.js, and I rarely needed to use a custom server. However, in some cases, it is inevitable.

We will look at the following topics in detail:

  • What using a "custom server" means, ...
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ISBN: 9781801073493