In today’s fast-paced web development world, Next.js is one framework that’s becoming popular among developers. It’s a powerful React-based solution that offers a lot more than just a traditional React and Node.js setup. What makes it so great? Let’s take a closer look.
In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to set up a simple Next.js web application. Next.js is a heavily opinionated JavaScript framework, in that it has a lot of conventions and recommended tools built into its design.
We’ll use Next.js version 14.2.2 to set up the groundwork for a simple web application. By “web application,” I mean an application that is designed primarily to collect input from a user in a web browser and return some output generated from that input.
There is such a rich, user-driven ecosystem around React that it can be difficult to discern which frameworks, if any, should be used to develop enterprise-grade applications. This blog post dives into the most popular ones and analyzes which are most suitable for that specific use case.
Before diving in, please remember: the decision of which one is the right one for a given organization or application is very context-specific, so diligent consideration is required to ensure an optimal outcome.
In this post, I will go over some technical details on how to work with server-side rendering in Next.js as well as some cool and helpful utilities to aid in file uploading, all done in React! We’ll take a dive into Static Generation, SSR, and Multi-Part Form Data Uploading using Next-Connect and Mutler.
