Straightforward Next.js: The Crash Course

This is a course to teach you Next.js to all its depths. We will be diving deep to reap the benefits that Next.js has to offer — Routing (with pre–fetching), Internationalization (i18n), Static Site Generation (SSG), Server Side Rendering (SSR) and also best of both worlds with Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), Image Optimization, Serverless Functions and much more, all baked right in the framework so that you can focus more on developing your application at a scale.

With Next.js, you can build dynamic JAM stack based web applications. Plus, the support of Serverless functions takes the concept of a dynamic web application, a step further. You can write backend logic within the same Next.js application. That’s powerful, isn’t it?. Not only you can deliver the best possible User Experience (UX) but you as a developer, will be having a great Developer Experience (DX). Next.js gives a fine grain control over the whole application starting from the development through production and every step in between — you have the power to customize and configure anything in the process.

When combined with the sheer power and benefits that we get by containerizing the application, your web application becomes very much portable and independent of the underlying infrastructure. We will be using Docker to containerize our application so that, it can be deployed anywhere in the cloud, with near zero to minimal configuration and scale to handle any amount of traffic from your beloved users.