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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073493

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Typescript

Tools

Next.js

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Michele Riva

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

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A quick recap regarding our decisions

In the previous sections, we made some decisions based on the kind of pages that we'll need to render for our photography website.

This analysis is critical and should be considered for every website we will be working on in the future. If we need to add new pages to an existing Next.js website, we will need to perform a similar analysis to understand the best solution possible to get the best performances, security, and SEO compliance.

For our photography website, we came up with the following structure:

Home page: We will statically generate the whole home page except for the custom list of images, which will be rendered on the client side depending on the user browsing it.
Image detail page: We can either choose to server-side render it (as this will allow us to optimize the page for SEO and guarantees an excellent way of scaling our website up to millions of different image detail pages) or statically generate the most...