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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

Processing payments using Stripe

Stripe is one of the best financial services out there; it's straightforward to use and offers excellent documentation to understand how to integrate their APIs.

Before continuing with this section, make sure to open an account at https://stripe.com.

Once we have an account, we can log in and go to https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys, where we'll retrieve the following information: the publishable key and secret key. We will need to store them inside of two environment variables, following this naming convention:

NEXT_PUBLIC_STRIPE_SHARABLE_KEY=
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=

Please double-check that you're not exposing the STRIPE_SECRET_KEY variable and that the .env.local file is not added to the Git history by including it in the .gitignore file.

Now let's install the Stripe JavaScript SDK inside of our project:

yarn add @stripe/stripe-js stripe

Once the two packages are installed, we can create a new file under lib...