Learning Next.js (2022)

Learn how to speed up your workflow with Next.js, the popular, React-based framework that lets you build web applications quickly, easily, and effectively using JavaScript.

Introduction

• Speeding up your workflow with Next.js
• What you should know
• The exercise files and what you need

1. Why Choose Next.js

• Learning the building blocks of an application
• What is a web framework?
• Discovering the Next.js framework
• Learning the benefits of Next.js

2. Getting Started and Learning the Basics

• Getting started with the Next.js tooling
• Creating new pages
• Building a file-based routing system
• Creating links to navigate between pages
• Setting up dynamic routing and URLs
• Challenge: Set up a file-based system with zero config
• Solution: Set up a file-based system with zero config

3. Pre-rendering and Data Fetching

• Discovering the rendering strategies
• Discovering the rendering strategies with getStaticProps
• Pre-rendering at build time with static generation
• Pre-rendering super fast and super SEO-efficient content
• Discovering the rendering strategies with getServerSideProps
• Using dynamic routes and user's input to query content
• Search, request, and pre-render content with SSR
• Discovering the rendering strategies with getStaticPaths
• Pre-rendering at build time with static paths
• Handling errors with a fallback page (404 not found)
• Customizing an error page
• Challenge: Pre-rendering at build vs. runtime
• Solution: Pre-rendering at build vs. runtime

4. Styling Your Next.js Application

• Adding global styles
• Using scoped CSS with CSS modules
• Styling Next.js with styled JSX
• Loading static images
• Challenge: Add global and scoped styling
• Solution: Adding and maintain CSS globally

Conclusion

• What to learn next?