Initial Thoughts on Next.js

Well, that was interesting. So far, Next.js seems quite straight-forward (famous last words). To labour the point, I have always built my apps as SPAs, and to a large degree that was perfectly fine for my work. However, it's nice to have a framework telling you how to do things, as I won't have to overthink unimportant stuff.

I kind of liked that about angular. For all of that boilerplate setup, there was an "Angular way".

I like the way routing is done, it reminds me of php, which whilst I disliked few aspects of it, I loved the simple mental modal of directory structure = routing configuration.

I also liked the fact that there wasn't really that much in the form of boilerplate and the clear and concise wording of the official docs.

Oh and it's always great to build a blog for a tutorial, folks could then use their code practically and be engaged with the possibilities.

Four things I am now interested in exploring are:

• Server-side rendered apps
• Next.js's new app directory
• TypeScript with Next.js
• Serverless APIs?! Need to investigate because it seems awesome.

If you are a react developer that has never used next.js, I would highly recommend following the tutorial used to create this blog, if anything, it'll be good fun 😄