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SE Radio 557: Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js

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The Express Server: A Web Server for Routers

With next.js, you don't necessarily need a web server at all to make any decisions and dynamically serve you a piece of content. We also had to outfit links inside of the application so that each link new, am I just re-rendering a different state in my own application? Or am I leaving the app and going to another one? It's not an internal react round. It's not in my application. You have to go up to the express server to figure out that you actually need to switch over to a brand new single page application. So we could get rid of all that logic and make the app a lot simpler with next JS.

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