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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Static site generation

So far, we've seen two different ways of rendering our web apps: on the client side and server side. Next.js gives us a third option called static site generation (SSG).

With SSG, we will be able to pre-render some specific pages (or even the whole website if necessary) at build time; that means that when we're building our web app, there might be some pages that won't change their content very often, so it makes sense for us to serve them as static assets. Next.js will render these pages during the build phase and will always serve that specific HTML that, just like SSR, will become interactive thanks to the React hydration process.

SSG brings a lot of advantages when compared to both CSR and SSR:

Easy to scale: Static pages are just HTML files that can be served and cached easily by any content delivery network (from now on, CDN). But even if you want to serve them using your own web server, it will result in a very low workload...