Introduction to NextJs

Next.js is a popular and lightweight framework for static and server-rendered applications built with React.

Dev environment

• Uses Node as the server environment.
• Hot reloading
• styling
• routing
• hybrid static and server rendering
• TypeScript
• smart bundling
• route pre-fetching

Good points

• Lightweight
• Can be used for static and server-rendered applications built React applications.

Bad points

• monolithic
• doesn't allow for much composability
• one code base for front and backend
• doesn't work out of the box