Building Modern Web Apps with Next.js

# Building Modern Web Apps with Next.js Next.js is a powerful React framework that provides everything you need to build production-ready web applications. Let's explore its key features and how to get started. ## Why Choose Next.js? Next.js offers several advantages over traditional React applications: - **Server-Side Rendering (SSR)**: Improve SEO and initial page load times - **Static Site Generation (SSG)**: Pre-generate pages at build time - **API Routes**: Build full-stack applications with built-in API endpoints - **Automatic Code Splitting**: Better performance with smaller bundle sizes ## Getting Started Create a new Next.js project: ```bash npx create-next-app@latest my-app cd my-app npm run dev ``` ## File-based Routing Next.js uses file-based routing, making it easy to create new pages: ```javascript // pages/about.js export default function About() { return <h1>About Page</h1> } ``` This automatically creates a route at `/about`.