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Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.
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**Visit [learnnextjs.com](https://learnnextjs.com) to get started with Next.js.**
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- [How to use](#how-to-use)
- [Setup](#setup)
- [Automatic code splitting](#automatic-code-splitting)
- [CSS](#css)
- [Built-in CSS support](#built-in-css-support)
- [CSS-in-JS](#css-in-js)
- [Static file serving (e.g.: images)](#static-file-serving-eg-images)
- [Populating `<head>`](#populating-head)
- [Fetching data and component lifecycle](#fetching-data-and-component-lifecycle)
- [Routing](#routing)
- [With `<Link>`](#with-link)
- [Imperatively](#imperatively)
- [Router Events](#router-events)
- [Shallow Routing](#shallow-routing)
- [Using a Higher Order Component](#using-a-higher-order-component)
- [Prefetching Pages](#prefetching-pages)
- [With `<Link>`](#with-link-1)
- [Imperatively](#imperatively-1)
- [Custom server and routing](#custom-server-and-routing)
- [Dynamic Import](#dynamic-import)
- [Custom `<Document>`](#custom-document)
- [Custom error handling](#custom-error-handling)
- [Custom configuration](#custom-configuration)
- [Customizing webpack config](#customizing-webpack-config)
- [Customizing babel config](#customizing-babel-config)
- [CDN support with Asset Prefix](#cdn-support-with-asset-prefix)
- [Production deployment](#production-deployment)
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- [Static HTML export](#static-html-export)
- [Multi Zones](#multi-zones)
- [Recipes](#recipes)
- [FAQ](#faq)
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- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Authors](#authors)
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## How to use
### Setup
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Install it:
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```bash
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npm install --save next react react-dom
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```
> Next.js only supports [React 16](https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/09/26/react-v16.0.html).<br/>
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> We had to drop React 15 support due to the way React 16 works and how we use it.
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and add a script to your package.json like this:
```json
{
"scripts": {
"dev": "next",
"build": "next build",
"start": "next start"
}
}
```
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After that, the file-system is the main API. Every `.js` file becomes a route that gets automatically processed and rendered.
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Populate `./pages/index.js` inside your project:
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```jsx
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export default () => <div>Welcome to next.js!</div>
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```
and then just run `npm run dev` and go to `http://localhost:3000`. To use another port, you can run `npm run dev -- -p <your port here>`.
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So far, we get:
- Automatic transpilation and bundling (with webpack and babel)
- Hot code reloading
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- Server rendering and indexing of `./pages`
- Static file serving. `./static/` is mapped to `/static/`
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To see how simple this is, check out the [sample app - nextgram](https://github.com/zeit/nextgram)
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### Automatic code splitting
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Every `import` you declare gets bundled and served with each page. That means pages never load unnecessary code!
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```jsx
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import cowsay from 'cowsay-browser'
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export default () =>
<pre>
{cowsay.say({ text: 'hi there!' })}
</pre>
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```
### CSS
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#### Built-in CSS support
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<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
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<ul><li><a href="./examples/basic-css">Basic css</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
We bundle [styled-jsx](https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx) to provide support for isolated scoped CSS. The aim is to support "shadow CSS" similar to Web Components, which unfortunately [do not support server-rendering and are JS-only](https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/issues/71).
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```jsx
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export default () =>
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<div>
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Hello world
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<p>scoped!</p>
<style jsx>{`
p {
color: blue;
}
div {
background: red;
}
@media (max-width: 600px) {
div {
background: blue;
}
}
`}</style>
<style global jsx>{`
body {
background: black;
}
`}</style>
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</div>
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```
Please see the [styled-jsx documentation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/styled-jsx) for more examples.
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#### CSS-in-JS
<p><details>
<summary>
<b>Examples</b>
</summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-styled-components">Styled components</a></li><li><a href="./examples/with-styletron">Styletron</a></li><li><a href="./examples/with-glamor">Glamor</a></li><li><a href="./examples/with-glamorous">Glamorous</a></li><li><a href="./examples/with-cxs">Cxs</a></li><li><a href="./examples/with-aphrodite">Aphrodite</a></li><li><a href="./examples/with-fela">Fela</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
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It's possible to use any existing CSS-in-JS solution. The simplest one is inline styles:
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```jsx
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export default () => <p style={{ color: 'red' }}>hi there</p>
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```
To use more sophisticated CSS-in-JS solutions, you typically have to implement style flushing for server-side rendering. We enable this by allowing you to define your own [custom `<Document>`](#user-content-custom-document) component that wraps each page.
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Universal Webpack (#3578) * Speed up next build * Document webpack config * Speed up next build * Remove comment * Add comment * Clean up rules * Add comments * Run in parallel * Push plugins seperately * Create a new chunk for react * Don’t uglify react since it’s already uglified. Move react to commons in development * Use the minified version directly * Re-add globpattern * Move loaders into a separate variable * Add comment linking to Dan’s explanation * Remove dot * Add universal webpack * Initial dev support * Fix linting * Add changes from Arunoda's work * Made next dev works. But super slow and no HMR support. * Fix client side hot reload * Server side hmr * Only in dev * Add on-demand-entries client + hot-middleware * Add .babelrc support * Speed up on demand entries by running in parallel * Serve static generated files * Add missing config in dev * Add sass support * Add support for .map * Add cssloader config and fix .jsx support * Rename * use same defaults as css-loader. Fix linting * Add NoEmitErrorsPlugin * Add clientBootstrap * Use webpackhotmiddleware on the multi compiler * alpha.3 * Use babel 16.2.x * Fix reloading after error * Remove comment * Release 5.0.0-univeral-alpha.1 * Remove check for React 16 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.2 * React hot loader v4 * Use our static file rendering machanism to serve pages. This should work well since the file path for a page is predictable. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.3 * Remove optional loaders * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.4 * Remove clientBootstrap * Remove renderScript * Make sure pages bundles are served correctly * Remove unused import * Revert to using the same code as canary * Fix hot loader * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.5 * Check if externals dir exist before applying config * Add typescript support * Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules Thanks to @giuseppeg’s work in https://github.com/zeit/next.js/pull/3319 * Add BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE support * Make sourcemaps in production opt-in * Revert "Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules" This reverts commit d4b1d9babfb4b9ed4f4b12d56d52dee233e862da. In favor of a better api around this. * Support typescript through next.config.js * Remove comments * Bring back commons.js calculation * Remove unused dependencies * Move base.config.js to webpack.js * Make sure to only invalidate webpackDevMiddleware one after other. * Allow babel-loder caching by default. * Add comment about preact support * Bring back buildir replace * Remove obsolete plugin * Remove build replace, speed up build * Resolve page entries like pages/day/index.js to pages/day.js * Add componentDidCatch back * Compile to bundles * Use config.distDir everywhere * Make sure the file is an array * Remove console.log * Apply optimization to uglifyjs * Add comment pointing to source * Create entries the same way in dev and production * Remove unused and broken pagesGlobPattern * day/index.js is automatically turned into day.js at build time * Remove poweredByHeader option * Load pages with the correct path. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.6 * Make sure react-dom/server can be overwritten by module-alias * Only add react-hot-loader babel plugin in dev * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.7 * Revert tests * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.10 * Make sure next/head is working properly. * Add wepack alias for 'next' back. * Make sure overriding className in next/head works * Alias react too * Add missing r * Fragment fallback has to wrap the children * Use min.js * Remove css.js * Remove wallaby.js * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.11 * Resolve relative to workdir instead of next * Make sure we touch the right file * Resolve next modules * Remove dotjsx removal plugins since we use webpack on the server * Revert "Resolve relative to workdir instead of next" This reverts commit a13f3e4ab565df9e2c9a3dfc8eb4009c0c2e02ed. * Externalize any locally loaded module lives outside of app dir. * Remove server aliases * Check node_modules reliably * Add symlink to next for tests * Make sure dynamic imports work locally. This is why we need it: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/b545b519b2024e3f8be3041385bd326bf5d24449/lib/MainTemplate.js#L68 We need to have the finally clause in the above in __webpack_require__. webpack output option strictModuleExceptionHandling does that. * dynmaic -> dynamic * Remove webpack-node-externals * Make sure dynamic imports support SSR. * Remove css support in favor of next-css * Make sure we load path from `/` since it’s included in the path matching * Catch when ensurepage couldn’t be fulfilled for `.js.map` * Register require cache flusher for both client and server * Add comment explaining this is to facilitate hot reloading * Only load module when needed * Remove unused modules * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.12 * Only log the `found babel` message once * Make sure ondemand entries working correctly. Now we are just using a single instance of OnDemandEntryHandler. * Better sourcemaps * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.13 * Lock uglify version to 1.1.6 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.14 * Fix a typo. * Introduce multi-zones support for mircofrontends * Add section on css
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#### Importing CSS / Sass / Less files
To support importing `.css` `.scss` or `.less` files you can use these modules, which configure sensible defaults for server rendered applications.
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- [@zeit/next-css](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-css)
- [@zeit/next-sass](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-sass)
- [@zeit/next-less](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-less)
Universal Webpack (#3578) * Speed up next build * Document webpack config * Speed up next build * Remove comment * Add comment * Clean up rules * Add comments * Run in parallel * Push plugins seperately * Create a new chunk for react * Don’t uglify react since it’s already uglified. Move react to commons in development * Use the minified version directly * Re-add globpattern * Move loaders into a separate variable * Add comment linking to Dan’s explanation * Remove dot * Add universal webpack * Initial dev support * Fix linting * Add changes from Arunoda's work * Made next dev works. But super slow and no HMR support. * Fix client side hot reload * Server side hmr * Only in dev * Add on-demand-entries client + hot-middleware * Add .babelrc support * Speed up on demand entries by running in parallel * Serve static generated files * Add missing config in dev * Add sass support * Add support for .map * Add cssloader config and fix .jsx support * Rename * use same defaults as css-loader. Fix linting * Add NoEmitErrorsPlugin * Add clientBootstrap * Use webpackhotmiddleware on the multi compiler * alpha.3 * Use babel 16.2.x * Fix reloading after error * Remove comment * Release 5.0.0-univeral-alpha.1 * Remove check for React 16 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.2 * React hot loader v4 * Use our static file rendering machanism to serve pages. This should work well since the file path for a page is predictable. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.3 * Remove optional loaders * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.4 * Remove clientBootstrap * Remove renderScript * Make sure pages bundles are served correctly * Remove unused import * Revert to using the same code as canary * Fix hot loader * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.5 * Check if externals dir exist before applying config * Add typescript support * Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules Thanks to @giuseppeg’s work in https://github.com/zeit/next.js/pull/3319 * Add BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE support * Make sourcemaps in production opt-in * Revert "Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules" This reverts commit d4b1d9babfb4b9ed4f4b12d56d52dee233e862da. In favor of a better api around this. * Support typescript through next.config.js * Remove comments * Bring back commons.js calculation * Remove unused dependencies * Move base.config.js to webpack.js * Make sure to only invalidate webpackDevMiddleware one after other. * Allow babel-loder caching by default. * Add comment about preact support * Bring back buildir replace * Remove obsolete plugin * Remove build replace, speed up build * Resolve page entries like pages/day/index.js to pages/day.js * Add componentDidCatch back * Compile to bundles * Use config.distDir everywhere * Make sure the file is an array * Remove console.log * Apply optimization to uglifyjs * Add comment pointing to source * Create entries the same way in dev and production * Remove unused and broken pagesGlobPattern * day/index.js is automatically turned into day.js at build time * Remove poweredByHeader option * Load pages with the correct path. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.6 * Make sure react-dom/server can be overwritten by module-alias * Only add react-hot-loader babel plugin in dev * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.7 * Revert tests * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.10 * Make sure next/head is working properly. * Add wepack alias for 'next' back. * Make sure overriding className in next/head works * Alias react too * Add missing r * Fragment fallback has to wrap the children * Use min.js * Remove css.js * Remove wallaby.js * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.11 * Resolve relative to workdir instead of next * Make sure we touch the right file * Resolve next modules * Remove dotjsx removal plugins since we use webpack on the server * Revert "Resolve relative to workdir instead of next" This reverts commit a13f3e4ab565df9e2c9a3dfc8eb4009c0c2e02ed. * Externalize any locally loaded module lives outside of app dir. * Remove server aliases * Check node_modules reliably * Add symlink to next for tests * Make sure dynamic imports work locally. This is why we need it: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/b545b519b2024e3f8be3041385bd326bf5d24449/lib/MainTemplate.js#L68 We need to have the finally clause in the above in __webpack_require__. webpack output option strictModuleExceptionHandling does that. * dynmaic -> dynamic * Remove webpack-node-externals * Make sure dynamic imports support SSR. * Remove css support in favor of next-css * Make sure we load path from `/` since it’s included in the path matching * Catch when ensurepage couldn’t be fulfilled for `.js.map` * Register require cache flusher for both client and server * Add comment explaining this is to facilitate hot reloading * Only load module when needed * Remove unused modules * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.12 * Only log the `found babel` message once * Make sure ondemand entries working correctly. Now we are just using a single instance of OnDemandEntryHandler. * Better sourcemaps * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.13 * Lock uglify version to 1.1.6 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.14 * Fix a typo. * Introduce multi-zones support for mircofrontends * Add section on css
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### Static file serving (e.g.: images)
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Create a folder called `static` in your project root directory. From your code you can then reference those files with `/static/` URLs:
```jsx
export default () => <img src="/static/my-image.png" alt="my image" />
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```
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### Populating `<head>`
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<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/head-elements">Head elements</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/layout-component">Layout component</a></li>
</ul>
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</details></p>
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We expose a built-in component for appending elements to the `<head>` of the page.
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```jsx
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import Head from 'next/head'
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export default () =>
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<div>
<Head>
<title>My page title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" />
</Head>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</div>
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```
To avoid duplicate tags in your `<head>` you can use the `key` property, which will make sure the tag is only rendered once:
```jsx
import Head from 'next/head'
export default () => (
<div>
<Head>
<title>My page title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, width=device-width" key="viewport" />
</Head>
<Head>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.2, width=device-width" key="viewport" />
</Head>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</div>
)
```
In this case only the second `<meta name="viewport" />` is rendered.
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_Note: The contents of `<head>` get cleared upon unmounting the component, so make sure each page completely defines what it needs in `<head>`, without making assumptions about what other pages added_
### Fetching data and component lifecycle
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<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/data-fetch">Data fetch</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
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When you need state, lifecycle hooks or **initial data population** you can export a `React.Component` (instead of a stateless function, like shown above):
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```jsx
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import React from 'react'
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export default class extends React.Component {
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static async getInitialProps({ req }) {
const userAgent = req ? req.headers['user-agent'] : navigator.userAgent
return { userAgent }
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}
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render() {
return (
<div>
Hello World {this.props.userAgent}
</div>
)
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}
}
```
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Notice that to load data when the page loads, we use `getInitialProps` which is an [`async`](https://zeit.co/blog/async-and-await) static method. It can asynchronously fetch anything that resolves to a JavaScript plain `Object`, which populates `props`.
Data returned from `getInitialProps` is serialized when server rendering, similar to a `JSON.stringify`. Make sure the returned object from `getInitialProps` is a plain `Object` and not using `Date`, `Map` or `Set`.
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For the initial page load, `getInitialProps` will execute on the server only. `getInitialProps` will only be executed on the client when navigating to a different route via the `Link` component or using the routing APIs.
_Note: `getInitialProps` can **not** be used in children components. Only in `pages`._
<br/>
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> If you are using some server only modules inside `getInitialProps`, make sure to [import them properly](https://arunoda.me/blog/ssr-and-server-only-modules).
> Otherwise, it'll slow down your app.
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<br/>
You can also define the `getInitialProps` lifecycle method for stateless components:
```jsx
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const Page = ({ stars }) =>
<div>
Next stars: {stars}
</div>
Page.getInitialProps = async ({ req }) => {
const res = await fetch('https://api.github.com/repos/zeit/next.js')
const json = await res.json()
return { stars: json.stargazers_count }
}
export default Page
```
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`getInitialProps` receives a context object with the following properties:
- `pathname` - path section of URL
- `query` - query string section of URL parsed as an object
- `asPath` - `String` of the actual path (including the query) shows in the browser
- `req` - HTTP request object (server only)
- `res` - HTTP response object (server only)
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- `jsonPageRes` - [Fetch Response](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Response) object (client only)
- `err` - Error object if any error is encountered during the rendering
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### Routing
#### With `<Link>`
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<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/hello-world">Hello World</a></li>
</ul>
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</details></p>
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Client-side transitions between routes can be enabled via a `<Link>` component. Consider these two pages:
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```jsx
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// pages/index.js
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import Link from 'next/link'
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export default () =>
<div>
Click{' '}
<Link href="/about">
<a>here</a>
</Link>{' '}
to read more
</div>
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```
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```jsx
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// pages/about.js
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export default () => <p>Welcome to About!</p>
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```
__Note: use [`<Link prefetch>`](#prefetching-pages) for maximum performance, to link and prefetch in the background at the same time__
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Client-side routing behaves exactly like the browser:
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1. The component is fetched
2. If it defines `getInitialProps`, data is fetched. If an error occurs, `_error.js` is rendered
3. After 1 and 2 complete, `pushState` is performed and the new component is rendered
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Each top-level component receives a `url` property with the following API:
- `pathname` - `String` of the current path excluding the query string
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- `query` - `Object` with the parsed query string. Defaults to `{}`
- `asPath` - `String` of the actual path (including the query) shows in the browser
- `push(url, as=url)` - performs a `pushState` call with the given url
- `replace(url, as=url)` - performs a `replaceState` call with the given url
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The second `as` parameter for `push` and `replace` is an optional _decoration_ of the URL. Useful if you configured custom routes on the server.
##### With URL object
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/with-url-object-routing">With URL Object Routing</a></li>
</ul>
</details></p>
The component `<Link>` can also receive an URL object and it will automatically format it to create the URL string.
```jsx
// pages/index.js
import Link from 'next/link'
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export default () =>
<div>
Click{' '}
<Link href={{ pathname: '/about', query: { name: 'Zeit' } }}>
<a>here</a>
</Link>{' '}
to read more
</div>
```
That will generate the URL string `/about?name=Zeit`, you can use every property as defined in the [Node.js URL module documentation](https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_url_strings_and_url_objects).
##### Replace instead of push url
The default behaviour for the `<Link>` component is to `push` a new url into the stack. You can use the `replace` prop to prevent adding a new entry.
```jsx
// pages/index.js
import Link from 'next/link'
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export default () =>
<div>
Click{' '}
<Link href="/about" replace>
<a>here</a>
</Link>{' '}
to read more
</div>
```
##### Using a component that supports `onClick`
`<Link>` supports any component that supports the `onClick` event. In case you don't provide an `<a>` tag, it will only add the `onClick` event handler and won't pass the `href` property.
```jsx
// pages/index.js
import Link from 'next/link'
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export default () =>
<div>
Click{' '}
<Link href="/about">
<img src="/static/image.png" alt="image" />
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</Link>
</div>
```
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##### Forcing the Link to expose `href` to its child
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If child is an `<a>` tag and doesn't have a href attribute we specify it so that the repetition is not needed by the user. However, sometimes, youll want to pass an `<a>` tag inside of a wrapper and the `Link` wont recognize it as a *hyperlink*, and, consequently, wont transfer its `href` to the child. In cases like that, you should define a boolean `passHref` property to the `Link`, forcing it to expose its `href` property to the child.
**Please note**: using a tag other than `a` and failing to pass `passHref` may result in links that appear to navigate correctly, but, when being crawled by search engines, will not be recognized as links (owing to the lack of `href` attribute). This may result in negative effects on your sites SEO.
```jsx
import Link from 'next/link'
import Unexpected_A from 'third-library'
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export default ({ href, name }) =>
<Link href={href} passHref>
<Unexpected_A>
{name}
</Unexpected_A>
</Link>
```
##### Disabling the scroll changes to top on page
The default behaviour of `<Link>` is to scroll to the top of the page. When there is a hash defined it will scroll to the specific id, just like a normal `<a>` tag. To prevent scrolling to the top / hash `scroll={false}` can be added to `<Link>`:
```jsx
<Link scroll={false} href="/?counter=10"><a>Disables scrolling</a></Link>
<Link href="/?counter=10"><a>Changes with scrolling to top</a></Link>
```
#### Imperatively
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/using-router">Basic routing</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/with-loading">With a page loading indicator</a></li>
</ul>
</details></p>
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You can also do client-side page transitions using the `next/router`
```jsx
import Router from 'next/router'
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export default () =>
<div>
Click <span onClick={() => Router.push('/about')}>here</span> to read more
</div>
```
Above `Router` object comes with the following API:
- `route` - `String` of the current route
- `pathname` - `String` of the current path excluding the query string
- `query` - `Object` with the parsed query string. Defaults to `{}`
- `asPath` - `String` of the actual path (including the query) shows in the browser
- `push(url, as=url)` - performs a `pushState` call with the given url
- `replace(url, as=url)` - performs a `replaceState` call with the given url
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The second `as` parameter for `push` and `replace` is an optional _decoration_ of the URL. Useful if you configured custom routes on the server.
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_Note: in order to programmatically change the route without triggering navigation and component-fetching, use `props.url.push` and `props.url.replace` within a component_
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##### With URL object
You can use an URL object the same way you use it in a `<Link>` component to `push` and `replace` an url.
```jsx
import Router from 'next/router'
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const handler = () =>
Router.push({
pathname: '/about',
query: { name: 'Zeit' }
})
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export default () =>
<div>
Click <span onClick={handler}>here</span> to read more
</div>
```
This uses of the same exact parameters as in the `<Link>` component.
##### Router Events
You can also listen to different events happening inside the Router.
Here's a list of supported events:
- `onRouteChangeStart(url)` - Fires when a route starts to change
- `onRouteChangeComplete(url)` - Fires when a route changed completely
- `onRouteChangeError(err, url)` - Fires when there's an error when changing routes
- `onBeforeHistoryChange(url)` - Fires just before changing the browser's history
> Here `url` is the URL shown in the browser. If you call `Router.push(url, as)` (or similar), then the value of `url` will be `as`.
Here's how to properly listen to the router event `onRouteChangeStart`:
```js
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Router.onRouteChangeStart = url => {
console.log('App is changing to: ', url)
}
```
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If you no longer want to listen to that event, you can simply unset the event listener like this:
```js
Router.onRouteChangeStart = null
```
If a route load is cancelled (for example by clicking two links rapidly in succession), `routeChangeError` will fire. The passed `err` will contain a `cancelled` property set to `true`.
```js
Router.onRouteChangeError = (err, url) => {
if (err.cancelled) {
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console.log(`Route to ${url} was cancelled!`)
}
}
```
##### Shallow Routing
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/with-shallow-routing">Shallow Routing</a></li>
</ul>
</details></p>
Shallow routing allows you to change the URL without running `getInitialProps`. You'll receive the updated `pathname` and the `query` via the `url` prop of the same page that's loaded, without losing state.
You can do this by invoking either `Router.push` or `Router.replace` with the `shallow: true` option. Here's an example:
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```js
// Current URL is "/"
const href = '/?counter=10'
const as = href
Router.push(href, as, { shallow: true })
```
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Now, the URL is updated to `/?counter=10`. You can see the updated URL with `this.props.url` inside the `Component`.
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You can watch for URL changes via [`componentWillReceiveProps`](https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-component.html#componentwillreceiveprops) hook as shown below:
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```js
componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
const { pathname, query } = nextProps.url
// fetch data based on the new query
}
```
> NOTES:
>
> Shallow routing works **only** for same page URL changes. For an example, let's assume we have another page called `about`, and you run this:
> ```js
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> Router.push('/?counter=10', '/about?counter=10', { shallow: true })
> ```
> Since that's a new page, it'll unload the current page, load the new one and call `getInitialProps` even though we asked to do shallow routing.
#### Using a Higher Order Component
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/using-with-router">Using the `withRouter` utility</a></li>
</ul>
</details></p>
If you want to access the `router` object inside any component in your app, you can use the `withRouter` Higher-Order Component. Here's how to use it:
```jsx
import { withRouter } from 'next/router'
const ActiveLink = ({ children, router, href }) => {
const style = {
marginRight: 10,
color: router.pathname === href? 'red' : 'black'
}
const handleClick = (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
router.push(href)
}
return (
<a href={href} onClick={handleClick} style={style}>
{children}
</a>
)
}
export default withRouter(ActiveLink)
```
The above `router` object comes with an API similar to [`next/router`](#imperatively).
### Prefetching Pages
⚠️ This is a production only feature ⚠️
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-prefetching">Prefetching</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
Next.js has an API which allows you to prefetch pages.
Since Next.js server-renders your pages, this allows all the future interaction paths of your app to be instant. Effectively Next.js gives you the great initial download performance of a _website_, with the ahead-of-time download capabilities of an _app_. [Read more](https://zeit.co/blog/next#anticipation-is-the-key-to-performance).
> With prefetching Next.js only downloads JS code. When the page is getting rendered, you may need to wait for the data.
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#### With `<Link>`
You can add `prefetch` prop to any `<Link>` and Next.js will prefetch those pages in the background.
```jsx
import Link from 'next/link'
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// example header component
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export default () =>
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<nav>
<ul>
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<li>
<Link prefetch href="/">
<a>Home</a>
</Link>
</li>
<li>
<Link prefetch href="/about">
<a>About</a>
</Link>
</li>
<li>
<Link prefetch href="/contact">
<a>Contact</a>
</Link>
</li>
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</ul>
</nav>
```
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#### Imperatively
Most prefetching needs are addressed by `<Link />`, but we also expose an imperative API for advanced usage:
```jsx
import Router from 'next/router'
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export default ({ url }) =>
<div>
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<a onClick={() => setTimeout(() => url.pushTo('/dynamic'), 100)}>
A route transition will happen after 100ms
</a>
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{// but we can prefetch it!
Router.prefetch('/dynamic')}
</div>
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```
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### Custom server and routing
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/custom-server">Basic custom server</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/custom-server-express">Express integration</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/custom-server-hapi">Hapi integration</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/custom-server-koa">Koa integration</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/parameterized-routing">Parameterized routing</a></li>
<li><a href="./examples/ssr-caching">SSR caching</a></li>
</ul>
</details></p>
Typically you start your next server with `next start`. It's possible, however, to start a server 100% programmatically in order to customize routes, use route patterns, etc.
When using a custom server with a server file, for example called `server.js`, make sure you update the scripts key in `package.json` to:
```json
{
"scripts": {
"dev": "node server.js",
"build": "next build",
"start": "NODE_ENV=production node server.js"
}
}
```
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This example makes `/a` resolve to `./pages/b`, and `/b` resolve to `./pages/a`:
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```js
// This file doesn't go through babel or webpack transformation.
// Make sure the syntax and sources this file requires are compatible with the current node version you are running
// See https://github.com/zeit/next.js/issues/1245 for discussions on Universal Webpack or universal Babel
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const { createServer } = require('http')
const { parse } = require('url')
const next = require('next')
const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
const app = next({ dev })
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const handle = app.getRequestHandler()
app.prepare().then(() => {
createServer((req, res) => {
// Be sure to pass `true` as the second argument to `url.parse`.
// This tells it to parse the query portion of the URL.
const parsedUrl = parse(req.url, true)
const { pathname, query } = parsedUrl
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if (pathname === '/a') {
app.render(req, res, '/b', query)
} else if (pathname === '/b') {
app.render(req, res, '/a', query)
} else {
handle(req, res, parsedUrl)
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}
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}).listen(3000, err => {
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if (err) throw err
console.log('> Ready on http://localhost:3000')
})
})
```
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The `next` API is as follows:
- `next(opts: object)`
Supported options:
- `dev` (`bool`) whether to launch Next.js in dev mode - default `false`
- `dir` (`string`) where the Next project is located - default `'.'`
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- `quiet` (`bool`) Hide error messages containing server information - default `false`
- `conf` (`object`) the same object you would use in `next.config.js` - default `{}`
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Then, change your `start` script to `NODE_ENV=production node server.js`.
#### Disabling file-system routing
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By default, `Next` will serve each file in `/pages` under a pathname matching the filename (eg, `/pages/some-file.js` is served at `site.com/some-file`.
If your project uses custom routing, this behavior may result in the same content being served from multiple paths, which can present problems with SEO and UX.
To disable this behavior & prevent routing based on files in `/pages`, simply set the following option in your `next.config.js`:
```js
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
useFileSystemPublicRoutes: false
}
```
#### Dynamic assetPrefix
Sometimes we need to set the `assetPrefix` dynamically. This is useful when changing the `assetPrefix` based on incoming requests.
For that, we can use `app.setAssetPrefix`.
Here's an example usage of it:
```js
const next = require('next')
const micro = require('micro')
const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
const app = next({ dev })
const handle = app.getRequestHandler()
app.prepare().then(() => {
const server = micro((req, res) => {
// Add assetPrefix support based on the hostname
if (req.headers.host === 'my-app.com') {
app.setAssetPrefix('http://cdn.com/myapp')
} else {
app.setAssetPrefix('')
}
handleNextRequests(req, res)
})
server.listen(port, (err) => {
if (err) {
throw err
}
console.log(`> Ready on http://localhost:${port}`)
})
})
```
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### Dynamic Import
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul>
<li><a href="./examples/with-dynamic-import">With Dynamic Import</a></li>
</ul>
</details></p>
Next.js supports TC39 [dynamic import proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-dynamic-import) for JavaScript.
With that, you could import JavaScript modules (inc. React Components) dynamically and work with them.
You can think dynamic imports as another way to split your code into manageable chunks.
Since Next.js supports dynamic imports with SSR, you could do amazing things with it.
Here are a few ways to use dynamic imports.
#### 1. Basic Usage (Also does SSR)
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```jsx
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import dynamic from 'next/dynamic'
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const DynamicComponent = dynamic(import('../components/hello'))
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export default () =>
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<div>
<Header />
<DynamicComponent />
<p>HOME PAGE is here!</p>
</div>
```
#### 2. With Custom Loading Component
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```jsx
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import dynamic from 'next/dynamic'
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const DynamicComponentWithCustomLoading = dynamic(
import('../components/hello2'),
{
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loading: () => <p>...</p>
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}
)
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export default () =>
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<div>
<Header />
<DynamicComponentWithCustomLoading />
<p>HOME PAGE is here!</p>
</div>
```
#### 3. With No SSR
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```jsx
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import dynamic from 'next/dynamic'
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const DynamicComponentWithNoSSR = dynamic(import('../components/hello3'), {
ssr: false
})
export default () =>
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<div>
<Header />
<DynamicComponentWithNoSSR />
<p>HOME PAGE is here!</p>
</div>
```
#### 4. With Multiple Modules At Once
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```jsx
import dynamic from 'next/dynamic'
const HelloBundle = dynamic({
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modules: props => {
const components = {
Hello1: import('../components/hello1'),
Hello2: import('../components/hello2')
}
// Add remove components based on props
return components
},
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render: (props, { Hello1, Hello2 }) =>
<div>
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<h1>
{props.title}
</h1>
<Hello1 />
<Hello2 />
</div>
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})
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export default () => <HelloBundle title="Dynamic Bundle" />
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```
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### Custom `<Document>`
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-styled-components">Styled components custom document</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-amp">Google AMP</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
Pages in `Next.js` skip the definition of the surrounding document's markup. For example, you never include `<html>`, `<body>`, etc. To override that default behavior, you must create a file at `./pages/_document.js`, where you can extend the `Document` class:
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```jsx
// _document is only rendered on the server side and not on the client side
// Event handlers like onClick can't be added to this file
// ./pages/_document.js
import Document, { Head, Main, NextScript } from 'next/document'
import flush from 'styled-jsx/server'
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export default class MyDocument extends Document {
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static getInitialProps({ renderPage }) {
const { html, head, errorHtml, chunks } = renderPage()
const styles = flush()
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return { html, head, errorHtml, chunks, styles }
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}
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render() {
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return (
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<html>
<Head>
<style>{`body { margin: 0 } /* custom! */`}</style>
</Head>
<body className="custom_class">
{this.props.customValue}
<Main />
<NextScript />
</body>
</html>
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)
}
}
```
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The `ctx` object is equivalent to the one received in all [`getInitialProps`](#fetching-data-and-component-lifecycle) hooks, with one addition:
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- `renderPage` (`Function`) a callback that executes the actual React rendering logic (synchronously). It's useful to decorate this function in order to support server-rendering wrappers like Aphrodite's [`renderStatic`](https://github.com/Khan/aphrodite#server-side-rendering)
__Note: React-components outside of `<Main />` will not be initialised by the browser. If you need shared components in all your pages (like a menu or a toolbar), do _not_ add application logic here, but take a look at [this example](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/master/examples/layout-component).__
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### Custom error handling
404 or 500 errors are handled both client and server side by a default component `error.js`. If you wish to override it, define a `_error.js` in the pages folder:
```jsx
import React from 'react'
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export default class Error extends React.Component {
static getInitialProps({ res, err }) {
const statusCode = res ? res.statusCode : err ? err.statusCode : null;
return { statusCode }
}
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render() {
return (
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<p>
{this.props.statusCode
? `An error ${this.props.statusCode} occurred on server`
: 'An error occurred on client'}
</p>
)
}
}
```
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### Reusing the built-in error page
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If you want to render the built-in error page you can by using `next/error`:
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```jsx
import React from 'react'
import Error from 'next/error'
import fetch from 'isomorphic-unfetch'
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export default class Page extends React.Component {
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static async getInitialProps() {
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const res = await fetch('https://api.github.com/repos/zeit/next.js')
const statusCode = res.statusCode > 200 ? res.statusCode : false
const json = await res.json()
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return { statusCode, stars: json.stargazers_count }
}
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render() {
if (this.props.statusCode) {
return <Error statusCode={this.props.statusCode} />
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}
return (
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<div>
Next stars: {this.props.stars}
</div>
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)
}
}
```
> If you have created a custom error page you have to import your own `_error` component instead of `next/error`
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### Custom configuration
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For custom advanced behavior of Next.js, you can create a `next.config.js` in the root of your project directory (next to `pages/` and `package.json`).
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Note: `next.config.js` is a regular Node.js module, not a JSON file. It gets used by the Next server and build phases, and not included in the browser build.
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```js
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// next.config.js
module.exports = {
/* config options here */
}
```
Or use a function:
```js
module.exports = (phase, {defaultConfig}){
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//
// https://github.com/zeit/
return {
/* config options here */
}
}
```
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`phase` is the current context in which the configuration is loaded. You can see all phases here: [constants](./lib/constants.js)
Phases can be imported from `next/constants`:
```js
const {PHASE_DEVELOPMENT_SERVER} = require('next/constants')
module.exports = (phase, {defaultConfig}){
if(phase === PHASE_DEVELOPMENT_SERVER) {
return {
/* development only config options here */
}
}
return {
/* config options for all phases except development here */
}
}
```
#### Setting a custom build directory
You can specify a name to use for a custom build directory. For example, the following config will create a `build` folder instead of a `.next` folder. If no configuration is specified then next will create a `.next` folder.
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```js
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
distDir: 'build'
}
```
#### Disabling etag generation
You can disable etag generation for HTML pages depending on your cache strategy. If no configuration is specified then Next will generate etags for every page.
```js
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
generateEtags: false
}
```
#### Configuring the onDemandEntries
Next exposes some options that give you some control over how the server will dispose or keep in memories pages built:
```js
module.exports = {
onDemandEntries: {
// period (in ms) where the server will keep pages in the buffer
maxInactiveAge: 25 * 1000,
// number of pages that should be kept simultaneously without being disposed
pagesBufferLength: 2,
}
}
```
This is development-only feature. If you want to cache SSR pages in production, please see [SSR-caching](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/canary/examples/ssr-caching) example.
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#### Configuring extensions looked for when resolving pages in `pages`
Aimed at modules like [`@zeit/next-typescript`](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-typescript), that add support for pages ending in `.ts`. `pageExtensions` allows you to configure the extensions looked for in the `pages` directory when resolving pages.
```js
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
pageExtensions: ['jsx', 'js']
}
```
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### Customizing webpack config
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-webpack-bundle-analyzer">Custom webpack bundle analyzer</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
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In order to extend our usage of `webpack`, you can define a function that extends its config via `next.config.js`.
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```js
// This file is not going through babel transformation.
// So, we write it in vanilla JS
// (But you could use ES2015 features supported by your Node.js version)
module.exports = {
Universal Webpack (#3578) * Speed up next build * Document webpack config * Speed up next build * Remove comment * Add comment * Clean up rules * Add comments * Run in parallel * Push plugins seperately * Create a new chunk for react * Don’t uglify react since it’s already uglified. Move react to commons in development * Use the minified version directly * Re-add globpattern * Move loaders into a separate variable * Add comment linking to Dan’s explanation * Remove dot * Add universal webpack * Initial dev support * Fix linting * Add changes from Arunoda's work * Made next dev works. But super slow and no HMR support. * Fix client side hot reload * Server side hmr * Only in dev * Add on-demand-entries client + hot-middleware * Add .babelrc support * Speed up on demand entries by running in parallel * Serve static generated files * Add missing config in dev * Add sass support * Add support for .map * Add cssloader config and fix .jsx support * Rename * use same defaults as css-loader. Fix linting * Add NoEmitErrorsPlugin * Add clientBootstrap * Use webpackhotmiddleware on the multi compiler * alpha.3 * Use babel 16.2.x * Fix reloading after error * Remove comment * Release 5.0.0-univeral-alpha.1 * Remove check for React 16 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.2 * React hot loader v4 * Use our static file rendering machanism to serve pages. This should work well since the file path for a page is predictable. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.3 * Remove optional loaders * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.4 * Remove clientBootstrap * Remove renderScript * Make sure pages bundles are served correctly * Remove unused import * Revert to using the same code as canary * Fix hot loader * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.5 * Check if externals dir exist before applying config * Add typescript support * Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules Thanks to @giuseppeg’s work in https://github.com/zeit/next.js/pull/3319 * Add BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE support * Make sourcemaps in production opt-in * Revert "Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules" This reverts commit d4b1d9babfb4b9ed4f4b12d56d52dee233e862da. In favor of a better api around this. * Support typescript through next.config.js * Remove comments * Bring back commons.js calculation * Remove unused dependencies * Move base.config.js to webpack.js * Make sure to only invalidate webpackDevMiddleware one after other. * Allow babel-loder caching by default. * Add comment about preact support * Bring back buildir replace * Remove obsolete plugin * Remove build replace, speed up build * Resolve page entries like pages/day/index.js to pages/day.js * Add componentDidCatch back * Compile to bundles * Use config.distDir everywhere * Make sure the file is an array * Remove console.log * Apply optimization to uglifyjs * Add comment pointing to source * Create entries the same way in dev and production * Remove unused and broken pagesGlobPattern * day/index.js is automatically turned into day.js at build time * Remove poweredByHeader option * Load pages with the correct path. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.6 * Make sure react-dom/server can be overwritten by module-alias * Only add react-hot-loader babel plugin in dev * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.7 * Revert tests * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.10 * Make sure next/head is working properly. * Add wepack alias for 'next' back. * Make sure overriding className in next/head works * Alias react too * Add missing r * Fragment fallback has to wrap the children * Use min.js * Remove css.js * Remove wallaby.js * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.11 * Resolve relative to workdir instead of next * Make sure we touch the right file * Resolve next modules * Remove dotjsx removal plugins since we use webpack on the server * Revert "Resolve relative to workdir instead of next" This reverts commit a13f3e4ab565df9e2c9a3dfc8eb4009c0c2e02ed. * Externalize any locally loaded module lives outside of app dir. * Remove server aliases * Check node_modules reliably * Add symlink to next for tests * Make sure dynamic imports work locally. This is why we need it: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/b545b519b2024e3f8be3041385bd326bf5d24449/lib/MainTemplate.js#L68 We need to have the finally clause in the above in __webpack_require__. webpack output option strictModuleExceptionHandling does that. * dynmaic -> dynamic * Remove webpack-node-externals * Make sure dynamic imports support SSR. * Remove css support in favor of next-css * Make sure we load path from `/` since it’s included in the path matching * Catch when ensurepage couldn’t be fulfilled for `.js.map` * Register require cache flusher for both client and server * Add comment explaining this is to facilitate hot reloading * Only load module when needed * Remove unused modules * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.12 * Only log the `found babel` message once * Make sure ondemand entries working correctly. Now we are just using a single instance of OnDemandEntryHandler. * Better sourcemaps * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.13 * Lock uglify version to 1.1.6 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.14 * Fix a typo. * Introduce multi-zones support for mircofrontends * Add section on css
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webpack: (config, { buildId, dev, isServer, defaultLoaders }) => {
// Perform customizations to webpack config
// Important: return the modified config
return config
},
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webpackDevMiddleware: config => {
// Perform customizations to webpack dev middleware config
// Important: return the modified config
return config
}
}
```
Universal Webpack (#3578) * Speed up next build * Document webpack config * Speed up next build * Remove comment * Add comment * Clean up rules * Add comments * Run in parallel * Push plugins seperately * Create a new chunk for react * Don’t uglify react since it’s already uglified. Move react to commons in development * Use the minified version directly * Re-add globpattern * Move loaders into a separate variable * Add comment linking to Dan’s explanation * Remove dot * Add universal webpack * Initial dev support * Fix linting * Add changes from Arunoda's work * Made next dev works. But super slow and no HMR support. * Fix client side hot reload * Server side hmr * Only in dev * Add on-demand-entries client + hot-middleware * Add .babelrc support * Speed up on demand entries by running in parallel * Serve static generated files * Add missing config in dev * Add sass support * Add support for .map * Add cssloader config and fix .jsx support * Rename * use same defaults as css-loader. Fix linting * Add NoEmitErrorsPlugin * Add clientBootstrap * Use webpackhotmiddleware on the multi compiler * alpha.3 * Use babel 16.2.x * Fix reloading after error * Remove comment * Release 5.0.0-univeral-alpha.1 * Remove check for React 16 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.2 * React hot loader v4 * Use our static file rendering machanism to serve pages. This should work well since the file path for a page is predictable. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.3 * Remove optional loaders * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.4 * Remove clientBootstrap * Remove renderScript * Make sure pages bundles are served correctly * Remove unused import * Revert to using the same code as canary * Fix hot loader * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.5 * Check if externals dir exist before applying config * Add typescript support * Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules Thanks to @giuseppeg’s work in https://github.com/zeit/next.js/pull/3319 * Add BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE support * Make sourcemaps in production opt-in * Revert "Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules" This reverts commit d4b1d9babfb4b9ed4f4b12d56d52dee233e862da. In favor of a better api around this. * Support typescript through next.config.js * Remove comments * Bring back commons.js calculation * Remove unused dependencies * Move base.config.js to webpack.js * Make sure to only invalidate webpackDevMiddleware one after other. * Allow babel-loder caching by default. * Add comment about preact support * Bring back buildir replace * Remove obsolete plugin * Remove build replace, speed up build * Resolve page entries like pages/day/index.js to pages/day.js * Add componentDidCatch back * Compile to bundles * Use config.distDir everywhere * Make sure the file is an array * Remove console.log * Apply optimization to uglifyjs * Add comment pointing to source * Create entries the same way in dev and production * Remove unused and broken pagesGlobPattern * day/index.js is automatically turned into day.js at build time * Remove poweredByHeader option * Load pages with the correct path. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.6 * Make sure react-dom/server can be overwritten by module-alias * Only add react-hot-loader babel plugin in dev * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.7 * Revert tests * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.10 * Make sure next/head is working properly. * Add wepack alias for 'next' back. * Make sure overriding className in next/head works * Alias react too * Add missing r * Fragment fallback has to wrap the children * Use min.js * Remove css.js * Remove wallaby.js * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.11 * Resolve relative to workdir instead of next * Make sure we touch the right file * Resolve next modules * Remove dotjsx removal plugins since we use webpack on the server * Revert "Resolve relative to workdir instead of next" This reverts commit a13f3e4ab565df9e2c9a3dfc8eb4009c0c2e02ed. * Externalize any locally loaded module lives outside of app dir. * Remove server aliases * Check node_modules reliably * Add symlink to next for tests * Make sure dynamic imports work locally. This is why we need it: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/b545b519b2024e3f8be3041385bd326bf5d24449/lib/MainTemplate.js#L68 We need to have the finally clause in the above in __webpack_require__. webpack output option strictModuleExceptionHandling does that. * dynmaic -> dynamic * Remove webpack-node-externals * Make sure dynamic imports support SSR. * Remove css support in favor of next-css * Make sure we load path from `/` since it’s included in the path matching * Catch when ensurepage couldn’t be fulfilled for `.js.map` * Register require cache flusher for both client and server * Add comment explaining this is to facilitate hot reloading * Only load module when needed * Remove unused modules * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.12 * Only log the `found babel` message once * Make sure ondemand entries working correctly. Now we are just using a single instance of OnDemandEntryHandler. * Better sourcemaps * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.13 * Lock uglify version to 1.1.6 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.14 * Fix a typo. * Introduce multi-zones support for mircofrontends * Add section on css
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Some commonly asked for features are available as modules:
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- [@zeit/next-css](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-css)
- [@zeit/next-sass](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-sass)
- [@zeit/next-less](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-less)
- [@zeit/next-preact](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-preact)
- [@zeit/next-typescript](https://github.com/zeit/next-plugins/tree/master/packages/next-typescript)
Universal Webpack (#3578) * Speed up next build * Document webpack config * Speed up next build * Remove comment * Add comment * Clean up rules * Add comments * Run in parallel * Push plugins seperately * Create a new chunk for react * Don’t uglify react since it’s already uglified. Move react to commons in development * Use the minified version directly * Re-add globpattern * Move loaders into a separate variable * Add comment linking to Dan’s explanation * Remove dot * Add universal webpack * Initial dev support * Fix linting * Add changes from Arunoda's work * Made next dev works. But super slow and no HMR support. * Fix client side hot reload * Server side hmr * Only in dev * Add on-demand-entries client + hot-middleware * Add .babelrc support * Speed up on demand entries by running in parallel * Serve static generated files * Add missing config in dev * Add sass support * Add support for .map * Add cssloader config and fix .jsx support * Rename * use same defaults as css-loader. Fix linting * Add NoEmitErrorsPlugin * Add clientBootstrap * Use webpackhotmiddleware on the multi compiler * alpha.3 * Use babel 16.2.x * Fix reloading after error * Remove comment * Release 5.0.0-univeral-alpha.1 * Remove check for React 16 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.2 * React hot loader v4 * Use our static file rendering machanism to serve pages. This should work well since the file path for a page is predictable. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.3 * Remove optional loaders * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.4 * Remove clientBootstrap * Remove renderScript * Make sure pages bundles are served correctly * Remove unused import * Revert to using the same code as canary * Fix hot loader * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.5 * Check if externals dir exist before applying config * Add typescript support * Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules Thanks to @giuseppeg’s work in https://github.com/zeit/next.js/pull/3319 * Add BABEL_DISABLE_CACHE support * Make sourcemaps in production opt-in * Revert "Add support for transpiling certain packages in node_modules" This reverts commit d4b1d9babfb4b9ed4f4b12d56d52dee233e862da. In favor of a better api around this. * Support typescript through next.config.js * Remove comments * Bring back commons.js calculation * Remove unused dependencies * Move base.config.js to webpack.js * Make sure to only invalidate webpackDevMiddleware one after other. * Allow babel-loder caching by default. * Add comment about preact support * Bring back buildir replace * Remove obsolete plugin * Remove build replace, speed up build * Resolve page entries like pages/day/index.js to pages/day.js * Add componentDidCatch back * Compile to bundles * Use config.distDir everywhere * Make sure the file is an array * Remove console.log * Apply optimization to uglifyjs * Add comment pointing to source * Create entries the same way in dev and production * Remove unused and broken pagesGlobPattern * day/index.js is automatically turned into day.js at build time * Remove poweredByHeader option * Load pages with the correct path. * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.6 * Make sure react-dom/server can be overwritten by module-alias * Only add react-hot-loader babel plugin in dev * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.7 * Revert tests * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.10 * Make sure next/head is working properly. * Add wepack alias for 'next' back. * Make sure overriding className in next/head works * Alias react too * Add missing r * Fragment fallback has to wrap the children * Use min.js * Remove css.js * Remove wallaby.js * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.11 * Resolve relative to workdir instead of next * Make sure we touch the right file * Resolve next modules * Remove dotjsx removal plugins since we use webpack on the server * Revert "Resolve relative to workdir instead of next" This reverts commit a13f3e4ab565df9e2c9a3dfc8eb4009c0c2e02ed. * Externalize any locally loaded module lives outside of app dir. * Remove server aliases * Check node_modules reliably * Add symlink to next for tests * Make sure dynamic imports work locally. This is why we need it: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/b545b519b2024e3f8be3041385bd326bf5d24449/lib/MainTemplate.js#L68 We need to have the finally clause in the above in __webpack_require__. webpack output option strictModuleExceptionHandling does that. * dynmaic -> dynamic * Remove webpack-node-externals * Make sure dynamic imports support SSR. * Remove css support in favor of next-css * Make sure we load path from `/` since it’s included in the path matching * Catch when ensurepage couldn’t be fulfilled for `.js.map` * Register require cache flusher for both client and server * Add comment explaining this is to facilitate hot reloading * Only load module when needed * Remove unused modules * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.12 * Only log the `found babel` message once * Make sure ondemand entries working correctly. Now we are just using a single instance of OnDemandEntryHandler. * Better sourcemaps * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.13 * Lock uglify version to 1.1.6 * Release 5.0.0-universal-alpha.14 * Fix a typo. * Introduce multi-zones support for mircofrontends * Add section on css
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*Warning: The `webpack` function is executed twice, once for the server and once for the client. This allows you to distinguish between client and server configuration using the `isServer` property*
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Multiple configurations can be combined together with function composition. For example:
```js
const withTypescript = require('@zeit/next-typescript')
const withSass = require('@zeit/next-sass')
module.exports = withTypescript(withSass({
webpack(config, options) {
// Further custom configuration here
return config
}
}))
```
### Customizing babel config
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-custom-babel-config">Custom babel configuration</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
In order to extend our usage of `babel`, you can simply define a `.babelrc` file at the root of your app. This file is optional.
If found, we're going to consider it the *source of truth*, therefore it needs to define what next needs as well, which is the `next/babel` preset.
This is designed so that you are not surprised by modifications we could make to the babel configurations.
Here's an example `.babelrc` file:
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```json
{
"presets": ["next/babel"],
"plugins": []
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}
```
#### Exposing configuration to the server / client side
The `config` key allows for exposing runtime configuration in your app. All keys are server only by default. To expose a configuration to both the server and client side you can use the `public` key.
```js
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
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serverRuntimeConfig: { // Will only be available on the server side
mySecret: 'secret'
},
publicRuntimeConfig: { // Will be available on both server and client
staticFolder: '/static'
}
}
```
```js
// pages/index.js
import getConfig from 'next/config'
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const {serverRuntimeConfig, publicRuntimeConfig} = getConfig()
console.log(serverRuntimeConfig.mySecret) // Will only be available on the server side
console.log(publicRuntimeConfig.staticFolder) // Will be available on both server and client
export default () => <div>
<img src={`${publicRuntimeConfig.staticFolder}/logo.png`} alt="logo" />
</div>
```
### CDN support with Asset Prefix
To set up a CDN, you can set up the `assetPrefix` setting and configure your CDN's origin to resolve to the domain that Next.js is hosted on.
```js
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const isProd = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
module.exports = {
// You may only need to add assetPrefix in the production.
assetPrefix: isProd ? 'https://cdn.mydomain.com' : ''
}
```
Note: Next.js will automatically use that prefix in the scripts it loads, but this has no effect whatsoever on `/static`. If you want to serve those assets over the CDN, you'll have to introduce the prefix yourself. One way of introducing a prefix that works inside your components and varies by environment is documented [in this example](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/master/examples/with-universal-configuration).
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## Production deployment
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To deploy, instead of running `next`, you want to build for production usage ahead of time. Therefore, building and starting are separate commands:
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```bash
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next build
next start
```
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For example, to deploy with [`now`](https://zeit.co/now) a `package.json` like follows is recommended:
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```json
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{
"name": "my-app",
"dependencies": {
"next": "latest"
},
"scripts": {
"dev": "next",
"build": "next build",
"start": "next start"
}
}
```
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Then run `now` and enjoy!
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Next.js can be deployed to other hosting solutions too. Please have a look at the ['Deployment'](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/wiki/Deployment) section of the wiki.
Note: `NODE_ENV` is properly configured by the `next` subcommands, if absent, to maximize performance. if youre using Next.js [programmatically](#custom-server-and-routing), its your responsibility to set `NODE_ENV=production` manually!
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Note: we recommend putting `.next`, or your custom dist folder (Please have a look at ['Custom Config'](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#custom-configuration)). You can set a custom folder in config, `.npmignore`, or `.gitignore`. Otherwise, use `files` or `now.files` to opt-into a whitelist of files you want to deploy (and obviously exclude `.next` or your custom dist folder).
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## Static HTML export
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<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-static-export">Static export</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
This is a way to run your Next.js app as a standalone static app without any Node.js server. The export app supports almost every feature of Next.js including dynamic urls, prefetching, preloading and dynamic imports.
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### Usage
Simply develop your app as you normally do with Next.js. Then create a custom Next.js [config](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#custom-configuration) as shown below:
```js
// next.config.js
module.exports = {
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exportPathMap: function() {
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return {
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'/': { page: '/' },
'/about': { page: '/about' },
'/readme.md': { page: '/readme' },
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'/p/hello-nextjs': { page: '/post', query: { title: 'hello-nextjs' } },
'/p/learn-nextjs': { page: '/post', query: { title: 'learn-nextjs' } },
'/p/deploy-nextjs': { page: '/post', query: { title: 'deploy-nextjs' } }
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}
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}
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}
```
> Note that if the path ends with a directory, it will be exported as `/dir-name/index.html`, but if it ends with an extension, it will be exported as the specified filename, e.g. `/readme.md` above. If you use a file extension other than `.html`, you may need to set the `Content-Type` header to `text/html` when serving this content.
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In that, you specify what are the pages you need to export as static HTML.
Then simply run these commands:
```sh
next build
next export
```
For that you may need to add a NPM script to `package.json` like this:
```json
{
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"scripts": {
"build": "next build && next export"
}
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}
```
And run it at once with:
```sh
npm run build
```
Then you've a static version of your app in the “out" directory.
> You can also customize the output directory. For that run `next export -h` for the help.
Now you can deploy that directory to any static hosting service. Note that there is an additional step for deploying to GitHub Pages, [documented here](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/wiki/Deploying-a-Next.js-app-into-GitHub-Pages).
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For an example, simply visit the “out” directory and run following command to deploy your app to [ZEIT now](https://zeit.co/now).
```sh
now
```
### Limitation
With next export, we build HTML version of your app when you run the command `next export`. In that time, we'll run the `getInitialProps` functions of your pages.
So, you could only use `pathname`, `query` and `asPath` fields of the `context` object passed to `getInitialProps`. You can't use `req` or `res` fields.
> Basically, you won't be able to render HTML content dynamically as we pre-build HTML files. If you need that, you need run your app with `next start`.
## Multi Zones
<p><details>
<summary><b>Examples</b></summary>
<ul><li><a href="./examples/with-zones">With Zones</a></li></ul>
</details></p>
A zone is a single deployment of a Next.js app. Just like that, you can have multiple zones. Then you can merge them as a single app.
For an example, you can have two zones like this:
* https://docs.my-app.com for serving `/docs/**`
* https://ui.my-app.com for serving all other pages
With multi zones support, you can merge both these apps into a single one. Which allows your customers to browse it using a single URL. But you can develop and deploy both apps independently.
> This is exactly the same concept as microservices, but for frontend apps.
### How to define a zone
There are no special zones related APIs. You only need to do following things:
* Make sure to keep only the pages you need in your app. (For an example, https://ui.my-app.com should not contain pages for `/docs/**`)
* Make sure your app has an [assetPrefix](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#cdn-support-with-asset-prefix). (You can also define the assetPrefix [dynamically](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#dynamic-assetprefix).)
### How to merge them
You can merge zones using any HTTP proxy.
You can use [micro proxy](https://github.com/zeit/micro-proxy) as your local proxy server. It allows you to easily define routing rules like below:
```json
{
"rules": [
{"pathname": "/docs**", "method":["GET", "POST", "OPTIONS"], "dest": "https://docs.my-app.com"},
{"pathname": "/**", "dest": "https://ui.my-app.com"}
]
}
```
For the production deployment, you can use the [path alias](https://zeit.co/docs/features/path-aliases) feature if you are using [ZEIT now](https://zeit.co/now). Otherwise, you can configure your existing proxy server to route HTML pages using a set of rules as show above.
## Recipes
- [Setting up 301 redirects](https://www.raygesualdo.com/posts/301-redirects-with-nextjs/)
- [Dealing with SSR and server only modules](https://arunoda.me/blog/ssr-and-server-only-modules)
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- [Building with React-Material-UI-Next-Express-Mongoose-Mongodb](https://github.com/builderbook/builderbook)
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## FAQ
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<details>
<summary>Is this production ready?</summary>
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Next.js has been powering https://zeit.co since its inception.
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Were ecstatic about both the developer experience and end-user performance, so we decided to share it with the community.
</details>
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<details>
<summary>How big is it?</summary>
The client side bundle size should be measured in a per-app basis.
A small Next main bundle is around 65kb gzipped.
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</details>
<details>
<summary>Is this like `create-react-app`?</summary>
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Yes and No.
Yes in that both make your life easier.
No in that it enforces a _structure_ so that we can do more advanced things like:
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- Server side rendering
- Automatic code splitting
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In addition, Next.js provides two built-in features that are critical for every single website:
- Routing with lazy component loading: `<Link>` (by importing `next/link`)
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- A way for components to alter `<head>`: `<Head>` (by importing `next/head`)
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If you want to create re-usable React components that you can embed in your Next.js app or other React applications, using `create-react-app` is a great idea. You can later `import` it and keep your codebase clean!
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</details>
<details>
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<summary>How do I use CSS-in-JS solutions?</summary>
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Next.js bundles [styled-jsx](https://github.com/zeit/styled-jsx) supporting scoped css. However you can use any CSS-in-JS solution in your Next app by just including your favorite library [as mentioned before](#css-in-js) in the document.
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</details>
<details>
<summary>What syntactic features are transpiled? How do I change them?</summary>
We track V8. Since V8 has wide support for ES6 and `async` and `await`, we transpile those. Since V8 doesnt support class decorators, we dont transpile those.
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See [this](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/blob/master/server/build/webpack.js#L79) and [this](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/issues/26)
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</details>
<details>
<summary>Why a new Router?</summary>
Next.js is special in that:
- Routes dont need to be known ahead of time
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- Routes are always lazy-loadable
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- Top-level components can define `getInitialProps` that should _block_ the loading of the route (either when server-rendering or lazy-loading)
As a result, we were able to introduce a very simple approach to routing that consists of two pieces:
- Every top level component receives a `url` object to inspect the url or perform modifications to the history
- A `<Link />` component is used to wrap elements like anchors (`<a/>`) to perform client-side transitions
We tested the flexibility of the routing with some interesting scenarios. For an example, check out [nextgram](https://github.com/zeit/nextgram).
</details>
<details>
<summary>How do I define a custom fancy route?</summary>
We [added](#custom-server-and-routing) the ability to map between an arbitrary URL and any component by supplying a request handler.
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On the client side, we have a parameter call `as` on `<Link>` that _decorates_ the URL differently from the URL it _fetches_.
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</details>
<details>
<summary>How do I fetch data?</summary>
Its up to you. `getInitialProps` is an `async` function (or a regular function that returns a `Promise`). It can retrieve data from anywhere.
</details>
<details>
<summary>Can I use it with GraphQL?</summary>
Yes! Here's an example with [Apollo](./examples/with-apollo).
</details>
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<details>
<summary>Can I use it with Redux?</summary>
Yes! Here's an [example](./examples/with-redux)
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</details>
<details>
<summary>Why aren't routes I have for my static export accessible in the development server?</summary>
This is a known issue with the architecture of Next.js. Until a solution is built into the framework, take a look at [this example solution](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/wiki/Centralizing-Routing) to centralize your routing.
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<details>
<summary>Can I use Next with my favorite Javascript library or toolkit?</summary>
Since our first release we've had **many** example contributions, you can check them out in the [examples](./examples) directory
</details>
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<details>
<summary>What is this inspired by?</summary>
Many of the goals we set out to accomplish were the ones listed in [The 7 principles of Rich Web Applications](http://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications/) by Guillermo Rauch.
The ease-of-use of PHP is a great inspiration. We feel Next.js is a suitable replacement for many scenarios where you otherwise would use PHP to output HTML.
Unlike PHP, we benefit from the ES6 module system and every file exports a **component or function** that can be easily imported for lazy evaluation or testing.
As we were researching options for server-rendering React that didnt involve a large number of steps, we came across [react-page](https://github.com/facebookarchive/react-page) (now deprecated), a similar approach to Next.js by the creator of React Jordan Walke.
</details>
## Contributing
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Please see our [contributing.md](./contributing.md)
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## Authors
- Arunoda Susiripala ([@arunoda](https://twitter.com/arunoda)) [ZEIT](https://zeit.co)
- Tim Neutkens ([@timneutkens](https://github.com/timneutkens)) [ZEIT](https://zeit.co)
- Naoyuki Kanezawa ([@nkzawa](https://twitter.com/nkzawa)) [ZEIT](https://zeit.co)
- Tony Kovanen ([@tonykovanen](https://twitter.com/tonykovanen)) [ZEIT](https://zeit.co)
- Guillermo Rauch ([@rauchg](https://twitter.com/rauchg)) [ZEIT](https://zeit.co)
- Dan Zajdband ([@impronunciable](https://twitter.com/impronunciable)) Knight-Mozilla / Coral Project