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Next.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Next.js Quick Start Guide Server-side rendering done right

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993661
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Server-Side Rendering and Next.js 2. Next.js fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Next.js Configuration 4. Next.js Data Flow 5. Application Life Cycle Handlers and Business Logic 6. Continuous Integration 7. Containers 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making Next.js routing

Now that we know how to make Next.js routing, let's make another page:

// pages/second.js
import React from "react";
export default () => (<div>Second</div>);

This new page is accessible via http://localhost:3000/second.

Now, let's add a link to that second page to the index page.

If we use a simple <a> tag for this, it will work, of course, but it will perform a regular server request instead of client-side navigation, so performance will be much worse: the client will reload all the initialization payloads, and will be forced to re-initialize the entire app.
  1. In order to do proper client-side navigation, we need to import a link component from Next.js:
      // pages/index.js
import React from "react";
import Link from "next/link";
export default () => (<div><Link href...
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Next.js Quick Start Guide
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