Learning NEXT.js

🐳 Next.js is a react framework means it consist of all the functionality that we may require anytime during app development by wrting the javascript in form of React JSX, component, Declarative, state, props way.

🐳 Next.js is used for serving react code to browser but by the means of Server side Rendering. Cool Intro right!

🐳 Also by default Next.js is made to be deployed over Zeit Now, Hey! that is what i like the most and struggled the most in recent times.

🐳 Next has only two required directories /pages and /public

Setup

npm init -y npm install react react-dom next mkdir pages // next needs a page directory with it to work

Start Client

npm run dev

Start Server

npm start

• Link of react router dom is on 'next/link'

  <Link href="/about">
    <a>About Page</a>
  </Link>

• @hapi/joi - The most powerful schema description language and data validator for JavaScript.

• express-jwt to validate jwt

• jsonwebtoken - to create a jw-token

Environment variables in next.js

Not working

 - https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next.config.js/environment-variables

  - Note: Trying to destructure process.env variables won't work due to the nature of webpack DefinePlugin.

#### working

 - https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next.config.js/runtime-configuration

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