Build Unofficial Udemy clone Application in Next.js v13

The React Framework for the Web

Used by some of the world's largest companies, Next.js enables you to create full-stack web applications by extending the latest React features and integrating powerful Rust-based JavaScript tooling for the fastest builds.

In this course, You will learn all the latest features of Next.js like app directory, pages, data fetching in a new way.

You will learn these concepts in this course:

• Client and Server Rendering

• Nested Routing

• Data Fetching

• Built-in Optimization

• Typescript support

• API Routes

• Middlewares

• Deployment

• CSS styling

• Caching

• Using database

One of the main benefits of Next. js is that it enables server-side rendering. This means the server can generate the HTML for a page and send it to the client, rather than the client generating the HTML using JavaScript. This can improve the performance and SEO of your app.

One of Next.js’s best features is file-based routing. Instead of dealing with complicated route settings in a program like react-router, routes can be specified using the directory project structure. By adding an entry point to the directory page, you can create a new path.

Next.js 13 includes updated file routing with the new directory. The optional app directory introduces a new layout structure as well as several new features and improvements.

The directory structure has undergone minor changes due to the new routing mechanism. Each path in the route has a dedicated directory with a page.js file that serves as the content entry point in Next.js 13.

What’s most exciting about the new version of Next.js is the expanded support for React server components. Server components let us run and render React components on the server side for faster delivery, a smaller JavaScript bundle, and less expensive client-side rendering.

In addition, depending on the kind of data required to generate a route, server components are automatically cached at build-time or runtime for added performance benefits.

Combining server and client components allows you to use server components for fast-loaded, non-interactive parts of your program while using client components for interaction, browser APIs, and other features.

When constructing client components for your Next.js application, you can designate them as such by using the ‘use client’; directive at the top of the file. However, if you utilize any third-party packages, you might need to create a client wrapper.

In addition, Next.js 13 introduces async components, a fresh approach to data collection for server-rendered components. When using async components, we can render systems using Promises using async & await.