Part 5:Advancing to Enterprise-Ready Full-Stack Applications

In this part, we will introduce Next.js as an enterprise-ready full-stack application framework. We will learn how it works and what its advantages are over using React alone. Then, we will create an app using Next.js and the new App Router paradigm. After that, we will introduce React Server Components and Server Actions as a way to directly interface with the database, without requiring a REST or GraphQL API. Then, we will dive deeper into the Next.js framework and learn about caching, API routes, adding metadata, and how to optimally load images and fonts. Next, we will learn how to deploy a Next.js app using Vercel and a custom deployment setup using Docker. Finally, we give an overview and briefly cover various advanced topics in full-stack development that have not been covered in this book yet. This includes concepts such as maintaining large-scale projects, optimizing the bundle size, an overview of UI libraries,...