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.
