Next.js

React gets you components and state, but production apps need routing, server rendering, data fetching, and deployment — and stitching all of that together yourself is exactly the problem Next.js solves. It's the framework behind most production React apps today, wrapping React in conventions for routing, rendering strategy, and API endpoints so you're not reinventing infrastructure on every project.

This course teaches you how to build Next.js applications the way they're actually shipped in production — the App Router, Server Components vs Client Components, and when to fetch data on the server versus the client. You'll go from basic file-based routing to streaming, caching strategies, authentication, and deploying a real app, understanding not just the APIs but why Next.js makes the tradeoffs it does.

Every module ends with a hands-on project. You'll build a server-rendered content site, a full-stack app with API routes and a database, and a production application with authentication that you'll actually deploy. By the end of the course, you'll know when to reach for Server Components, how to structure a real Next.js project, and how to ship it to production with confidence.