NextJS is the foundation of this blog template.
It's a minimal framework for building websites with React. Importantly it is both a Server Side Rendering (SSR) framework and a static site generator. This site is made to be used with the static export functionality of Next, but SSR is still really useful.
During the development cycle it let's you just run a dev server and see any changes automatically reflected in the served page. Also, if your site ever grows and gets more complicated you won't have to change anything to get the benefits of SSR.
Importantly, Next is extremely minimal. It has a lot of bells-and-whistles, but
it let's you pull them in as you need to and provides a very clean interface to
interact with. Essentially the only thing you need to know is that Next will
generate a page for every file in your pages directory. They also have
excellent documentation, that let's you then implement
more advanced things as you need to.
Next's plugin ecosystem lets you extend it even further. We're using it to enable parsing MDX files, and to enable typescript support!
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