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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Summary

In this chapter, we focused on state management using both React built-in APIs (the Context APIs and Hooks) and external libraries (Redux). There are many other tools and libraries for managing an application's global state (MobX, Recoil, XState, Unistore, to name just a few). You can use all of them inside your Next.js application by initializing them for both client-side and server-side usage, just like we did with Redux.

Also, you can use Apollo GraphQL and its in-memory cache for managing your application state, gaining access to a formal query language for mutating and querying your global data.

We can now create more complex and interactive web applications, managing different kinds of state with any library we want.

But once you have your data well organized and ready to use, you need to display it and render your application UI depending on your application state. In the next chapter, you will see how to style your web app by configuring and using different...