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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

Customizing _app.js and _document.js pages

There are certain cases where you need to take control over page initialization, so that every time we render a page, Next.js will need to run certain operations before sending the resulting HTML to the client. To do that, the framework allows us to create two new files, called _app.js and _document.js, inside our pages/ directory.

The _app.js page

By default, Next.js ships with the following pages/_app.js file:

import '../styles/globals.css'
function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return <Component {...pageProps} />
}
export default MyApp

As you can see, the function is just returning the Next.js page component (the Component prop) and its props (pageProps).

But now, let's say that we want to share a navigation bar between all the pages without manually importing that component on each page. We can start by creating the navbar inside components/Navbar.js:

import Link from 'next/link...
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