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Real-World Next.js

By : Michele Riva
Book Image

Real-World Next.js

By: Michele Riva

Overview of this book

Next.js is a scalable and high-performance React.js framework for modern web development and provides a large set of features, such as hybrid rendering, route prefetching, automatic image optimization, and internationalization, out of the box. If you are looking to create a blog, an e-commerce website, or a simple website, this book will show you how you can use the multipurpose Next.js framework to create an impressive user experience. Starting with the basics of Next.js, the book demonstrates how the framework can help you reach your development goals. You'll realize how versatile Next.js is as you build real-world applications with step-by-step explanations. This Next.js book will guide you in choosing the right rendering methodology for your website, securing it, and deploying it to different providers, all while focusing on performance and developer happiness. By the end of the book, you'll be able to design, build, and deploy modern architectures using Next.js with any headless CMS or data source.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Next.js
5
Part 2: Hands-On Next.js
14
Part 3: Next.js by Example

Private routes

As the adjective "private" suggests, private pages are not meant to be reached by everybody. Instead, they should be accessible by logged-in users only and contain the essential information needed to manage their account settings (username, password, email, and so on).

That said, we won't really care about SEO, but we'll focus on security instead. The data contained in those pages is sensitive, and we want to protect it at all costs.

This is one of those rare cases where we want to sacrifice some performance to improve our security.

We could quickly generate the private routes statically and then make all the required API calls on the client side, but this could expose some personal (or private) data if not handled correctly. So instead, we will adopt the server-side rendering strategy to detect anonymous users right before rendering the page and redirect them away. Also, if the user making the request is logged in, we can preload all of...