What is Next.js?
By: Tree Fitty
October 16, 2023 1:43 PM / 0 Comments Developer Education Web3
Next.js extends the React library and uses a Rust compiler to allow for faster full-stack web applications. By offering built-in optimizations, server-side rendering, middleware, nested layouts, and more, Next.js has been overwhelmingly welcomed by not only developers, but leaders in the technology industry.
If you are new to web development or never even thought about it, Next.js applications can do more things, in new ways, faster. Before Javascript usage advanced and libraries like React were created, a webpage would load, a user could click some buttons, and maybe add content, as seen with email.
As people could interact more and more with online applications, web pages required more code. Next.js has evolved the interaction of the internet to also include the good old fashioned sharing information of the internet.
From there, Next.js offers an easy to use option for developers, or anyone with the correct services, to utilize AI, analytics, and content, team, and financial management tools to make dreams come true online.
For developers, everyone knows UX, but let's talk DX. The developer experience is fanstatic with Next.js because it gives us the tools we, maybe didn't "need", but are definitely happy to have.
The filesystem as the router is great, there is an ease of api integrations, and now, with the app directory, developers can reuse, well, basically anything they want as users navigate their applications.
Next.js has definitely found its place in the evolution of the internet.