Shreyas

Aug 25, 2022

Next.js is the future of web

Next.js is a React framework that gives you building blocks to create web applications.

By framework, we mean Next.js handles the tooling and configuration needed for React, and provides additional structure, features, and optimizations for your application.

You can use React to build your UI, then incrementally adopt Next.js features to solve common application requirements such as routing, data fetching, integrations - all while improving the developer and end-user experience.

Whether you’re an individual developer or part of a larger team, you can leverage React and Next.js to build fully interactive, highly dynamic, and performant web applications.

Next.js handles much of these code transformations and underlying infrastructure to make it easier for your application to go to production.

This is made possible because Next.js has a written in Rust, a low-level programming language, and SWC, a platform that can be used for compilation, minification, bundling, and more. Developers write code in languages that are more developer-friendly such as JSX, TypeScript, and modern versions of JavaScript. While these languages improve the efficiency and confidence of developers, they need to be compiled into JavaScript before browsers can understand them.

Compiling refers to the process of taking code in one language and outputting it in another language or another version of that language.