It couples a great dev experience with an opinionated feature set to make it easy to spin up new performant, dynamic web apps
It's used by many high-profile teams like @hulu, @apple, @Nike, & more
https://t.co/whCdm5ytuk
Next.js has taken the web dev world by storm
It’s the @reactjs framework devs rave about praising its power, flexibility, and dev experience
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It couples a great dev experience with an opinionated feature set to make it easy to spin up new performant, dynamic web apps
It's used by many high-profile teams like @hulu, @apple, @Nike, & more
https://t.co/whCdm5ytuk
Since then, the team & community has grown expotentially, including contributions from giants like @Google
https://t.co/xPPTOtHoKW
Compared to other popular @reactjs frameworks like Gatsby, which pulled in 12%
*The Next.js stats likely include some SSR, arguably not Jamstack
https://t.co/acNawfcM4z
Simply run:
yarn create next-app
or
npx create-next-app
You can even start from a git-based template with the -e flag
yarn create next-app -e https://t.co/JMQ87gi1ue
https://t.co/rwKhp7zlys
Meaning the files you create and their names, are what's used to create your website pages
/pages/index.js
=> / (homepage)
/pages/about.js
=> /about (About)
You can also add dynamic routes for more complex apps
https://t.co/9Wx8lHwMai
SSR = Server Side Rendering
On each browser request, Next.js renders the React page and serves the HTML to the browser
If any data is needed, getServerSideProps can be used to fetch dynamic data during render
https://t.co/oYeF5vOAtr
SSG = Static Site Generation
`next export` takes the Next.js website, renders the project similar to how it would on the server, and saves it as static files and assets
getStaticProps allows you to fetch data at build time
https://t.co/Ad7AHqx2QY
ISR = Incremental Static Regeneration
Caching mechanisms serve pages statically while refreshing stale content in the background on the server
Setting revalidate on getStaticProps defines how often it refreshes
https://t.co/NOE4tmB1DK
It also uses file-system based routing to create new routes
/pages/api/my-endpoint.js
=> /api/my-endpoint
Inside, you export a handler function to handle the request and response
https://t.co/I5iNM4ZmPe
next/image provides a range of optimizations like compression, automatic modern formats, and responsive sizing
https://t.co/SdG48w9GQc
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Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
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— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) November 10, 2018
We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
