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React SSR with Next.js #1. Concept of Server Side Rendering & basics of routing

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the React SSR with Next.js

In recent years, the popularity of client-side Single Page Applications skyrocketed, for various reasons. Following its principles, we build pages with the amount of interactivity that we didn’t have before. When using React to render the page the “regular” way, the server sends a blank page and the JavaScript files. By doing that, the browser […]

React SSR with Next.js #2. Prefetching the data with getInitialProps

Today we expand our knowledge to build pages that are more complex and utilize more features from the Next.js framework. In this article, we learn how to fetch initial data for our components on the server side. This way, we can take even more work off the client side. Fetching data First, let’s display some […]