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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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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

Private routes

As the adjective "private" suggests, private pages are not meant to be reached by everybody. Instead, they should be accessible by logged-in users only and contain the essential information needed to manage their account settings (username, password, email, and so on).

That said, we won't really care about SEO, but we'll focus on security instead. The data contained in those pages is sensitive, and we want to protect it at all costs.

This is one of those rare cases where we want to sacrifice some performance to improve our security.

We could quickly generate the private routes statically and then make all the required API calls on the client side, but this could expose some personal (or private) data if not handled correctly. So instead, we will adopt the server-side rendering strategy to detect anonymous users right before rendering the page and redirect them away. Also, if the user making the request is logged in, we can preload all of...

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