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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

End-to-end testing with Cypress

Cypress is a powerful testing tool that can test anything that runs on a web browser.

It enables you to write and run unit, integration, and end-to-end tests efficiently by running them on Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (for example, Google Chrome).

So far, we have written tests for understanding whether our functions and components are working as expected. Now it's time to test whether the entire application is working correctly.

To get started with Cypress, we just need to install it as a dev dependency in our project. We will be using the same project as the latest section, but if you want to get started from a clean project, you can clone the following repository and get started from there: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Real-World-Next.js/tree/main/09-testing-nextjs/unit-integration-tests.

Let's install Cypress by typing the following command into the terminal:

yarn add -D cypress

Once Cypress is installed, we...