About the Book

Next.js From The Beginning - Building Production-Ready React Apps

Welcome to the Next.js From The Beginning - Building Production-Ready React Apps book - your learning resource for getting into React and Next.js.

What is Next.js

Next.js is a React framework which makes building production-ready React Apps a lot easier. It abstracts away common and redundant tasks, so that you can spend more time on implementing the functionality of your React web app. This book teaches you everything you need to get started with Next.js fast and without hurdles.

What you'll learn

• React basics needed to get started with Next.js
• Basic Next.js concepts, setting up development environment, creating your first Next.js application from scratch
• Working with Next.js Pages
• Navigating between Pages
• Working with multiple Pages and nesting components to organize your Next.js application
• Using the file-based Next.js routing system
• Making use of Static Site Generation (SSG) and Server-side Rendering (SSR)
• Implementing API Routes
• Managing static assets in Next.js
• Using build-in image optimization capabilities
• Working with global styling and component-level styling in Next.js
• Using SASS in Next.js
• Data Fetching
• Authentication
• Deployment
• ...

About the Author

Sebastian Eschweiler

Using and writing about best practices and latest technologies in web design & development is my passion.