Introduction to Next.js

There are multiple ways to implement a decoupled frontend for Drupal using one of the many available frontend frameworks.

It’s mostly a matter of taste. You can use Angular, Vue.js, or React; all of them have some support for Drupal and its API.

Here we’ll use one of the community’s latest solutions: Next.js for Drupal (https://next-drupal.org).

Next.js

Next.js (https://nextjs.org) is a powerful and popular open source framework for building modern web applications and websites. Developed on top of React.js, Next.js simplifies and streamlines the process of creating dynamic and server-rendered applications. One of its key features is its ability to handle both client- and server-side rendering, allowing developers to balance performance and user experience. Next.js also provides built-in support for automatic code splitting, enabling efficient loading of only the necessary components for each page. With an intuitive API and a...