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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

Handling metadata

Correctly handling metadata is a crucial part of modern web development. To keep it simple, let's think about when we share a link on Facebook or Twitter. If we share the React website (https://reactjs.org) on Facebook, we will see the following card appear inside our post:

Figure 3.5 – Open Graph data of

To know which data should be displayed inside the card, Facebook uses a protocol called Open Graph (https://ogp.me). In order to give that information to any social network or website, we need to add some metadata to our pages.

So far, we haven't yet talked about how to set open graph data, HTML titles, or HTML meta tags dynamically. While a website could technically work even without that data, search engines would penalize your pages, as they would miss important information. The user experience could also be negatively affected as these meta tags would help the browser create an optimized experience for our users.

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