137: Tim Neutkens - Continuing to Innovate with Next.js 9.3

Topics include:

• An overview of the new getStaticProps, getStaticPaths, and getServerSideProps APIs
• How Next.js helps you serve static pages from an edge CDN automatically, without affecting the actual authoring experience
• Using getStaticPaths to statically pregenerate dynamic routes
• How the fallback feature of getStaticPaths works and lets you statically render pages on-demand to avoid long build times
• How the upcoming incremental static generation feature will work in Next.js
• Deploying Next.js to a platform other than Zeit, and how you retain all of Next’s benefits automatically
• How getServerSideProps is different from getInitialProps
• Why getServerSideProps actually improves performance, even though it introduces another hop
• How getServerSideProps results in smaller bundle sizes vs. getInitialProps
• Using getServerSideProps to safely talk directly to a database, skipping the need for an API
• Why Zeit as a company has started to favor client-side data fetching with SWR over getInitialProps/getServerSideProps, and how they are combining that with statically pregenerated “shells” for incredibly fast feeling experiences
• What’s coming next in future releases

Links:

• Next.js
• Next.js 9.3 Announcement
• Incremental Static Generation RFC
• Next.js Code Elimination Demo
• SWR, ZEIT's data fetching library

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