5 NEXT.JS

In Chapter 4, you used React to create responsive user interface components. But because React is just a library, building a full-stack application requires additional tools. In this chapter, we use Next.js, the leading web application framework built on top of React. To create an app with Next.js, you need to know only a few essential concepts. This chapter covers them.

Next.js streamlines the creation of an application’s frontend, middleware, and backend. On the frontend, it uses React. It also adds native CSS modules to define styles, and custom Next.js modules to perform routing, image handling, and additional frontend tasks. ...

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