Reasons to choose next.js

Great company “zeit" behind it

• founder “Guillermo Rauch” (socket.io)
• They have business model around it:
  Now — Global Serverless Deployments
• https://zeit.co/about

Great project

• 7 versions so far, minimal api changes
• 33 717 GitHub 🌟 stars
• Continuous development
• Lot of examples
• LearnNextJs.com for beginners
• Active community (GitHub/spectrum.chat)

Can be used with different servers or static export

• Koa, Hapi, Fastify, Express…
• For start you can export to static file and host anywhere
• for example on Github pages
• or now, surge, netlify ...

Include nice “tricks”

• SSR out of the box with getInitialProps
• _document, _app (_app introduced in v6)
• Every page is “Webpack endpoint”
• Link prefetching
• Dynamic import
• You can extend build in webpack configuration
• Pass security audit
• CDN deployment ready (Continuous delivery)
• AMP support

Do not reinvent the wheel 🙏

• Please do not write another react boilerplate
• Join community and help improve Next.js

Notable companies using Next.js

• Netflix, GitHub, Avocode
• Kiwi.com
• Showcase

Examples I/II.

1. stars
2. custom server
3. static export
4. gh pages
5. with inferno (preact) instead of react
6. and design, aphrodite, fela, glamorous
   material-ui, styled-components, style-jsx

Examples II/II

1. redux, mobx, mobx-state-tree
2. apollo, firebase
3. electron, pkg
4. flow, typescript
5. jest (storybook)
6. ReasonML

Our setup

• Styled-components
• Static Export
• Apollo Client
• GitHub pages

Nice to have

• absolute imports
• flow
• jest
• dotenv
• sentry
• webpack-bundle-analyzer