Next.js 13 Crash Course - Building Full Stack Apps

📚 Next.js 13 introduces new features for full stack development.

👨‍💻 To install Next.js 13, use the command 'MPX create Next Step at latest' and name your project.

🗂 The file structure of a Next.js 13 project includes various directories and files such as readme, package.json, and Pages.

📚 The video introduces the concept of root layout and demonstrates how to use it to create a navigation menu.

👨‍💻 It explains how to handle errors and reload data using the error.jsx file provided by Next.js.

🔧 The video shows how to add metadata and a loading component to the website using head.jsx and loading.jsx files.

🚀 The video demonstrates how to integrate Tailwind CSS into a Next.js project.

📚 The video demonstrates how to set up Tailwind CSS in a Next.js project and apply it to different pages.

📝 It also shows how to import Google Fonts in Next.js and customize the font styles using the Tailwind config file.

🎥 Additionally, the video explains how to fetch data from a movie database API and use the retrieved data in the project.

🔍 Using the Internet Movie Database API, we can search for popular movies.

💻 In Next.js 13, data can be fetched using server components, and interactivity can be added using client components.

⚡️ To fetch data in Next.js 13, we can directly fetch it in the server component using the 'fetch' function.

🔑 The video demonstrates how to use Next.js 13 to build full-stack apps.

💻 The speaker shows how to import a Link component and use it to create a navigation link in the app.

🖼️ There is a discussion on how to display and style images in the app using Next.js Image component.

🔧 Creating a simple grid system using Tailwind CSS in Next.js.

📁 Implementing dynamic pages in Next.js by using param routing.

🎥 Fetching and displaying movie details from an API in a Next.js app.

🔍 Next.js uses server components by default, allowing for instant page loading and caching of pages.

🔄 Next.js 13 introduces the fetch API with extended capabilities, enabling easy data revalidation at specified intervals.

💡 Next.js supports static rendering of pages, eliminating the need for continuous data fetching on live production servers.