The Gap React Leaves · Next.js

Ch 1 · What Next.js Adds — card 1 of 4.

React renders components. That is genuinely all it does. Every real project then needs answers to questions React does not address:

• How does /orders show a different screen from /clients?
• Where does the data come from, and who is allowed to see it?
• What runs on the server and what runs in the customer's browser?
• How does any of this end up at an address someone can visit?

Teams used to assemble their own answers from five separate libraries, and every project was assembled differently. Next.js is those answers, decided once, in one framework. That is why job adverts say Next.js far more often than they say React alone.