Deepak Singh | Web Developer & Designer

INTRODUCTION: Next.js is an open-source framework for web development mainly based on React which is a JavaScript library. But, Next.js is much more than just a React library. It, also, has many additional built-in features which is not available in React. In other words, Next.js is an advanced version of React. There are many reasons why one should use Next.js over React — A)  Full-Stack Web Development Framework — React is basically focused on developing user interfaces, and state management. To write server-side code, we need to depend on third-party libraries e.g. for route handling, and creating REST APIs , we need Express.js. Whereas, Next.js has an in-built feature i.e. API Routes, which helps developers to write backend code as well without installing any third-party libraries. B)  Server-Side rendering (SSR) — One of the greatest challenge, every developer faced in React, was SEO optimization of web pages. Since in React, Each pages are , by default, rendered on clien...