# Why Next JS is awesome?



## 1. Seamless typescript setup  
It's so easy to integrate typescript into an existing Next JS with just two simple commands

```bash
touch tsconfig.json
```

```bash
yarn dev
```

The `yarn dev` command will guide you through the installation process.

## 2. Routing
The files created in the `pages` folder are considered as each and every route. 

`/` - `pages/index.js`  
`/contact` - `pages/contact/index.js`  
`/store/store-slug` - `pages/store/[slug].js`     

The `Link` exported from `next/link` and the `useRouter()` hook from `next/router` are easy to use and implement.  

## 3. Deployment
Here comes the most important part. One default solution is using [Vercel](https://vercel.com/). It just works out of the box for Next JS projects. The next one is using a Node JS server if you have server-rendered components. If you don't have any server-rendered components you can use `next build && next export`. This command generates a static HTML file with styles in the `out` directory. This can be deployed easily using [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/)drag and drop for manual deploys or even you can serve it from your own server. There are few drawbacks to the static HTML export feature, you cannot use `next/image` or `getServerSideProps`. For more caveats check the [documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/static-html-export#caveats) If you are using these features in your app you can go with Vercel or even running your own Node server in an EC2 instance.

## 4. Styling support
Next JS supports every kind of styling from plain CSS, SASS, SCSS, LESS and CSS-in-JS libraries like `emotion` and `styled-components`.

## 5. Documentation
The [documentation)[https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started] of Next JS is a very well-written doc. It has answers for most of the queries you would get while working on a Next JS project. 

On a closing note, these are few things which I felt Next JS is a good framework to build react projects. There are many other features that make Next JS really awesome. Feel free to drop them in the comments.

Happy Learning!