Summary
In this chapter, you were introduced to Next.js – an incredibly feature-rich and powerful React-based framework, suitable for building all kinds of websites and apps. We covered server-side generation (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR), as well as a more robust authentication system, using httpOnly cookies and API routes. You have learned the very basics of Next.js development and are now familiarized with the most interesting features and differences from plain React development. You have learned different ways of integrating images (or media files in general) into a complex pipeline, based on Cloudinary and Python Pillow and the powerful Next Image component. Finally, you were able to deploy your Next.js app on Vercel, a premier deployment solution, and put the GitHub repository into a continuous delivery and deployment pipeline. We’ve covered a lot of ground!
In the next chapter, we are going to go back to plain React and explore some topics that really...
