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Next.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Next.js Quick Start Guide Server-side rendering done right

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993661
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kirill Konshin Kirill Konshin
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Server-Side Rendering and Next.js 2. Next.js fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Next.js Configuration 4. Next.js Data Flow 5. Application Life Cycle Handlers and Business Logic 6. Continuous Integration 7. Containers 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Special pages

Next.js allows us to affect the way a website will be rendered by placing special handlers for certain items.

The first one is pages/_document.js, which allows us to define the surroundings of the page, such as the Head section. This could be useful to change the page title, add meta information or styles, and so on.

Here is a minimal example:

// pages/_document.js
import Document, {Head, Main, NextScript} from 'next/document';

export default class MyDocument extends Document {
render() {
return (
<html>
<Head>
<title>NextJS Condensed</title>
</Head>
<body>
<Main/>
<NextScript/>
</body>
</html>
)
}
}

In this example, we've configured the very basic surroundings of the actual...

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