Opensource software Next.js enables developers to create amazing web applications using React. It's built on top of Node.js - a popular server-side framework, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.
It helps in developing React-based web applications functionalities such as server-side rendering and generating static websites. In this guide, we will have a look at Next.js, one of the most popular frameworks.