I'm building currently a website that I will port later into a Windows app through electron.js, I know react.js and node.js with express, I've tried nest.js but didn't like it and it confused me. So after some researching I found out about next.js and that It would be a great upgrade, I'm confused though because it seems you can create all the functions on next.js that I already have on node.js, like register user etc, but the app will have a lot of features ,like friends, Twitter like wall, chat, some external API calls to other databases and a lot more features that I cant disclose now, should I keep all the logic in the node.js and just change the frontend to next.js? Would the SSR still work? Do I need to keep my routes in node.js, as user.routes.ts or use the routes in the next.js?
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Β» npm install next
Im trying to gain a deeper understanding of how JavasScript interacts with Node.js, Next.js, and React. What does Node.js, being a runtime for JavaScript, do on a lower level? What does Next.js do? How are they incorporated when using React?
Also since Next is a server-side package, you can build the next app to use your server.js code before deploying the server.
like so:
/* eslint-disable no-undef */
const express = require('express');
const next = require('next');
const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production';
const app = next({ dev });
const handle = app.getRequestHandler();
const options = {
...
};
app.prepare().then(() => {
const server = express();
server.get('*', (req, res) => {
return handle(req, res);
});
server.listen('8700', err => {
if (err) throw err;
console.log(`> Ready on Port 8700`);
});
});
Install Concurrently npm package to your node dependencies.
npm install concurrentlyAdd the following scripts to node server's package.json
"frontend-install": "npm install --prefix frontend", "start": "node server.js", "server": "nodemon server.js", "frontend": "cd ./frontend && npm run start", "dev": "concurrently \"npm run server\" \"npm run frontend\""
i am assuming that your next application is in a folder/directory called "frontend". 3. Add the following code to package.json of the nextjs application.
"proxy": "http://localhost:5000"
- Now
npm run startcommand to start node server and nextjs app together.
Hi guys, I'm learning programming and I wanted to use the front end NextJs and separately the back end NodeJs, but I haven't found content about it anywhere. Could someone tell me if there is a way to build a website with these two together?