What is Next JS?
Next.js is a JavaScript framework created by Zeit. It lets you build server-side rendering and static web applications using React. It’s a great tool to build your next website. It has many great features and advantages, which can make Nextjs your first option for building your next web application.
Next JS Features
Hot Code Reloading
Next.js reloads the page when it detects any change saved to disk. Automatic Routing Any URL is mapped to the filesystem, to files put in the pages folder, and you don't need any configuration (you have customization options of course).
Server Rendering
You can render React components on the server-side, before sending the HTML to the client.
Ecosystem Compatibility
Next.js plays well with the rest of the JavaScript, Node, and React ecosystem.
Automatic Code Splitting
Pages are rendered with just the libraries and JavaScript that they need, no more. Instead of generating one single JavaScript file containing all the app code, the app is broken up automatically by Next.js in several different resources.
Prefetching
The Link component, used to link together different pages, supports a prefetch prop which automatically prefetches page resources (including code missing due to code splitting) in the background.
TypeScript Support
Next.js is written in TypeScript and as such comes with excellent TypeScript support.
Why Use Next JS ECommerce
With Server-Side Rendering (SSR) the browser can start to display the HTML while the JavaScript files download parallelly and execute. With CSR, the user is left looking at a blank page longer, before the page becomes available and interactive. Hence, SSR can have huge upsides in terms of user experience.
Next js delivers superior application performance with its code being split into separate bundles that are lazily-loaded behind the scenes. This allows achieving superior performance even with an unstable connections.
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