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Next.js stores build cache in .next/cache to improve performance and reduce build time. To benefit from this in CI environments, your workflow must persist this cache between builds. This article walks through caching setup for popular CI providers including GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Vercel, and more.
Content Security Policy (CSP) protects your Next.js application from XSS, clickjacking, and injection attacks. This article explains how to configure CSP headers using Proxy, generate nonces for inline script safety, and enforce dynamic rendering to support nonce-based security.
If your application doesn’t require nonces, you can configure Content Security Policy (CSP) directly in next.config.js.. Next.js also supports experimental Subresource Integrity (SRI), allowing strict CSP enforcement while preserving static rendering and CDN caching. This article explains how to set CSP headers, enable SRI, handle development vs production differences, and safely integrate third-party scripts.
CSS-in-JS libraries allow you to define styles directly inside your React components. In Next.js, using these libraries with Server Components and streaming requires support for React 18’s concurrent rendering. This article explains how to configure styled-jsx and styled-components using style registries and the useServerInsertedHTML hook.
Next.js includes a built-in server that runs with next start. In rare cases, you may need a custom server to handle advanced routing or request logic. This article explains how to build a custom server using Node.js, configure your scripts, and understand the performance trade-offs and limitations of standalone mode.
React Server Components in Next.js improve performance but shift how and where data is accessed. This article explores three recommended data-fetching strategies, how to design a secure Data Access Layer (DAL), how to prevent sensitive data from leaking to the client, and how to use protective tools like taint and server-only modules.
Next.js uses Server Actions to handle data mutations like form submissions, database updates, and user logout. This article explains how Server Actions work, their built-in security features, how to validate client input, manage encryption keys, prevent CSRF attacks, and avoid side effects during rendering. It also includes auditing tips for secure Next.js applications.
Next.js supports full-stack debugging using tools like VS Code, Chrome DevTools, Firefox DevTools, and WebStorm. This article explains how to configure launch settings, inspect client and server code, use the --inspect flag, and debug across platforms with source maps and browser extensions.
Draft Mode in Next.js allows you to preview unpublished content from your headless CMS without rebuilding your site. This article walks through enabling Draft Mode, securing access with a secret token, validating slugs, and dynamically rendering draft content on request.
Next.js has built-in support for environment variables. This article explains how to load variables from .env files, expose them to the browser using NEXT_PUBLIC_, access them at runtime, configure them for testing, and understand the load order across environments.
Server Actions in Next.js allow you to handle form submissions directly on the server without needing separate API routes. This article walks through how to define forms, extract FormData, validate inputs with zod, manage submission states, and implement optimistic UI updates.
Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) in Next.js allows you to update static pages without rebuilding the entire site. This article explains how to configure time-based revalidation, use revalidatePath and revalidateTag for on-demand updates, manage cache behavior, and troubleshoot ISR in production.
