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Real-World Next.js

You're reading from   Real-World Next.js Build scalable, high-performance, and modern web applications using Next.js, the React framework for production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073493
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michele Riva Michele Riva
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Next.js
2. Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Next.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Different Rendering Strategies 4. Chapter 3: Next.js Basics and Built-In Components 5. Part 2: Hands-On Next.js
6. Chapter 4: Organizing the Code Base and Fetching Data in Next.js 7. Chapter 5: Managing Local and Global States in Next.js 8. Chapter 6: CSS and Built-In Styling Methods 9. Chapter 7: Using UI Frameworks 10. Chapter 8: Using a Custom Server 11. Chapter 9: Testing Next.js 12. Chapter 10: Working with SEO and Managing Performance 13. Chapter 11: Different Deployment Platforms 14. Part 3: Next.js by Example
15. Chapter 12: Managing Authentication and User Sessions 16. Chapter 13: Building an E-Commerce Website with Next.js and GraphCMS 17. Chapter 14: Example Projects and Next Steps for Learning More 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring and using Styled JSX

In this section, we will explore Styled JSX, a built-in styling mechanism provided by default by Next.js.

If you don't want to learn a new styling language such as SASS or LESS and want to integrate a bit of JavaScript into your CSS rules, you might be interested in Styled JSX. It's a CSS-in-JS library (meaning that we can use JavaScript to write CSS properties) created by Vercel, the company behind Next.js, that allows you to write CSS rules and classes that are scoped to a specific component.

Let me explain this concept with an easy example. Let's say that we have a Button component, and we want to style it using Styled JSX:

export default function Button(props) {
  return (
    <>
      <button className="button">{props.children}</button>
      <style jsx>{`
       &...
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