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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

Integrating SASS with Next.js

SASS is probably one of the most loved and used CSS preprocessors out there, and Next.js did an excellent job making it possible to integrate it with ease. In fact, just like CSS modules and Styled JSX, SASS is supported out of the box; we just need to install the sass npm package inside of our Next.js project, and we're ready to go:

yarn add sass

At this point, you can start using CSS modules with SASS and SCSS syntax, just like we did in the previous section.

Let's look at a simple example. If we open the pages/index.js file from the previous section, we can just change the CSS import to look as follows:

import styles from '../styles/Home.module.scss';
export default function Home() {
  return (
    <div className={styles.homepage}>
      <h1> Welcome to the CSS Modules example </h1>
    </div>
  );
}

Now...