Reasons to choose next.js

Great company “zeit" behind it

• founder “Guillermo Rauch” (socket.io)
• They have business model around it - now…
• https://zeit.co/about

Great project

• 6 versions so far, minimal api changes
• 25 164 🌟stars - GitHub
• Continuous development
• Lot of examples
• LearnNextJs.com for beginners
• Active github/community (spectrum.chat)

Can be used with different servers or static export

• Koa, hapi, Fastify, express…
• As start you can export to static file and host anywhere
• for example on Github pages

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

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
• 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