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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

Setting up GraphCMS

There are many different competitors in the e-commerce world; all of them offer a great set of functionalities for building modern and performant solutions, but there's always a kind of tradeoff when it comes to analyzing back-office features, frontend customization capabilities, APIs, integrations, and so on.

In this chapter, we will be using GraphCMS for a simple reason: it's easy to integrate, offers a generous free plan, and requires no setup for complex release pipelines, databases, or whatever. We just need to open an account and take advantage of the massive set of free features to build a fully working e-commerce website.

It also provides an e-commerce starter template with pre-built (yet fully customizable) contents, which translates to a pre-built GraphQL schema ready to consume on the frontend to create product pages, catalogs, and so on.

We can start by creating a new GraphCMS account by going to https://graphcms.com. Once we log into...