What is Next.js?
Next.js is a React framework that puts together everything you need to create a full-stack web application with React. Its main features are as follows:
- Good developer experience out of the box, including hot module reloading, error handling, and more.
- File-based routing and nested layouts, route handlers to define API endpoints, all from Next.js.
- Internationalization (i18n) support in routing, allowing us to create internationalized routes.
- Enhanced server-side and client-side data fetching with caching out of the box.
- Middleware to run code before requests are completed.
- Options to run API endpoints on serverless runtimes.
- Out-of-the-box support for static generation of pages.
- Dynamic streaming of components when they are needed, allowing us to show an initial page quickly, and then load other components later.
- Advanced client and server rendering, allowing us to not only render React components on the server side (server-side...