How To Develop and Build Next.js App with NodeJS Backend

Learn How you develop and build with an example project

There are so many ways we can build Next.js apps and ship them for production. One way is to build the Next.js app with NodeJS or Java and another way is to build the Next.js and serve that static content with NGINX web server. With NodeJS we have to deal with the server code as well, for example, you need to load the index.html page with the node.

In this post, we will see the details and implementation with the NodeJS. We will go through step by step with an example.

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Example Project
• Just Enough NodeJS For This Project
• Development Phase
• How To Build Project For Production
• Summary
• Conclusion

Introduction

Next.js is the React framework for static websites, the JAMstack, Production, Desktop, Lightweight Apps, Pre-rendered apps Mobile Web, etc. There are so many advantages using Next.js for your react application such as Pre-Rendering made easier, Exporting a static website with a single command, including CSS in JS code, very less configuration…