Next.js is a game changing for web developers looking for features and functionalities you don't find using Create React App.

Start your project in minutes

Next.js recommends creating a new Next.js app using create-next-app, which sets up everything automatically for you.

To create a project, run:

 npx create-next-app@latest
 # or
 yarn create next-app
 # or
 pnpm create next-app

If you want to start with a TypeScript project you can use the --typescript flag:

 npx create-next-app@latest --typescript
 # or
 yarn create next-app --typescript
 # or
 pnpm create next-app --typescript

After the installation is complete:

Run npm run dev or yarn dev or pnpm dev to start the development server on http://localhost:3000

Visit http://localhost:3000 to view your application

Edit pages/index.js and see the updated result in your browser

For more information on how to use create-next-app, you can review the create-next-app documentation.

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Here are some features that make Next.js the best React Framework:

Hybrid: SSG and SSR

Data fetching in Next.js allows you to render your content in different ways, depending on your application's use case. These include pre-rendering with Server-side Rendering or Static Generation, and updating or creating content at runtime with Incremental Static Regeneration.

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Image Component and Image Optimization

The Next.js Image component, next/image, is an extension of the HTML <img> element, evolved for the modern web. It includes a variety of built-in performance optimizations to help you achieve good Core Web Vitals. These scores are an important measurement of user experience on your website, and are factored into Google's search rankings.

Some of the optimizations built into the Image component
include:

Improved Performance: Always serve correctly sized image for each device, using modern image formats

Visual Stability: Prevent Cumulative Layout Shift automatically

Faster Page Loads: Images are only loaded when they enter the viewport, with optional blur-up placeholders

Asset Flexibility: On-demand image resizing, even for images stored on remote servers

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