Enabling SSR

Using SSR can be helpful if you're building an application that needs to render very quickly or when you want certain information to be loaded before the web page is visible. Although most search engines are now able to render SPAs, this can still be an improvement, for example, if you want users to share your page on social media or when you want to enhance the performance of your application.

Fetching data server side with Next.js

There is no standard pattern to enable SSR for your React application, but luckily, Next.js supports multiple ways to do data fetching, such as dynamically from the client, server side on every request, or statically during build time. The first way is what we've done in this chapter so far and in this section, we'll be requesting our data server side on every request. For this, the Next.js getServerSideProps method will be used.

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Next.js also offers the getStaticProps and getStaticPaths methods to generate the...