Client-Side Navigation
Explore client-side navigation in Next.js, including the use of the Link component for preloaded route changes and dynamic paths. Understand how to implement router.push for conditional redirection and programmatic navigation within your applications.
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Client-side Navigation in Next.js
As we have already seen so far, Next.js is not only about rendering React on the server. It provides several ways to optimize our website’s performance, and one of these optimizations is how it handles client-side navigation.
In fact, it supports the HTML standard <a> tags for linking pages, but it also provides a more optimized way for navigating between different routes: the Link component.
We can import it as a standard React component and use it for linking different pages or sections of our website. Let’s look at an easy example.
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export PORT=5000 ln -s /app/node_modules/ /usercode/app cd /usercode/app npm run dev
By default, Next.js ...