How Does Next.js Work?

Next.js is a powerful React framework that automatically pre-renders content, making your website accessible even when JavaScript is disabled. This pre-rendering capability not only enhances SEO by ensuring content is available in the page source for search engine bots but also improves the overall user experience.

This is a Pokédex site built with Vite as well as a identical Pokédex site built with Next.js. In the video lesson, let's look at how they're different under the hood.

Vite Website

Next.js Website

Let's look at how Next.js works under the hood 👇

Here's a Vite Site we looked at in the video

Here's a Next.js Site we looked at in the video

Resources

• Vite : A modern web development server that provides a fast and efficient way to build and serve web applications.
• Next.js : A popular React-based framework for building server-rendered, statically generated, and performance-optimized websites and applications.
• React Project Setup : A guide on how to start a new React project, covering the basics of setting up a project structure and dependencies.
• Create React App : A tool for quickly creating new React applications with a pre-configured setup, including a development server, Webpack, and Babel.