Published Nov 18 2019
Do you have set up your new Next.js application? Great!
Let’s now check the application is working as we expect it to work. It’s a Next.js app, so it should be server side rendered.
It’s one of the main selling points of Next.js: if we create a site using Next.js, the site pages are rendered on the server, which delivers HTML to the browser.
This has 3 major benefits:
Let’s view the source of the app. Using Chrome you can right-click anywhere in the page, and press View Page Source.
If you view the source of the page, you’ll see the <div><h1>Airbnb clone</h1></div>
snippet in the HTML body
, along with a bunch of JavaScript files - the app bundles.
We don’t need to set up anything, SSR (server-side rendering) is already working for us.
The React app will be launched on the client, and will be the one powering interactions like clicking a link, using client-side rendering. But reloading a page will re-load it from the server. And using Next.js there should be no difference in the result inside the browser - a server-rendered page should look exactly like a client-rendered page.
I wrote an entire book on this topic 👇
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