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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen three different and modern approaches for building user interfaces with Next.js, React, and even plain HTML.

In the following chapters, where we will be working on real-world web applications, we will be using the lessons learned in these sections to speed up the UI development, always keeping an eye on performance, accessibility, and developer experience.

If you're interested in learning more about the differences between Chakra UI and TailwindCSS specifically, you can read the official guide on the Chakra UI website: https://chakra-ui.com/docs/comparison.

Both libraries provide excellent support for implementing beautiful user interfaces, and even though they share some features, they are quite different in practice.

Chakra UI exposes a fantastic set of components, but they are only available for React and Vue. What if your project uses Angular or Svelte?

TailwindCSS, on the other hand, is 100% framework-agnostic: you can...