Why We Often Build Web Applications with Next.js
What Next.js is, the benefits it brings to businesses in speed, SEO, and maintainability, and when another choice is better.
Next.js is a popular framework for building web applications with React. It is a frequent choice for MOKRIN projects, and clients sometimes ask why. Here is a plain-language explanation of what it offers.
What Next.js is
Next.js builds on React, a widely used library for creating user interfaces, and adds the structure needed for complete applications: routing, data loading, rendering strategies, and optimisation.
Benefits for businesses
- Speed: pages can be pre-rendered and served quickly, with only the necessary JavaScript sent to browsers.
- Search visibility: content is delivered as real HTML, which search engines index easily.
- Flexibility: marketing pages, dashboards, and APIs can live in one application.
- Maintainability: a clear structure and a large ecosystem of tools and developers.
- Hiring: React and Next.js are widely known, so future teams can work on the code.
Rendering options
Next.js can render pages at build time, on the server for each request, or in the browser, and mix these approaches within one application. Each page uses the strategy that suits it best.
When something else might be better
- Very simple static sites may not need a full framework.
- Some highly interactive desktop-like tools may suit other approaches.
- Existing teams with deep expertise in another framework may be more productive with it.
Technology serves the business
We choose Next.js when it fits the problem, not by default. The goal is fast, maintainable software that any competent team can work on.
Good technology choices are the ones your future team will thank you for.
MOKRIN builds web applications with React and Next.js when they suit the project, and the code always belongs to the client.
