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Real-World Next.js: Build production-ready, scalable React applications with Next.js, AI tools, and best practices
Author(s): Dan Neciu (Author), Faris Aziz (Author), Michele Riva (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing – ebooks Account
- Publication Date: February 9, 2027
- Print length: 538 pages
- ISBN-10: 1807424456
- ISBN-13: 9781807424459
Book Description
Master production-ready Next.js development with App Router, RSC, and modern rendering strategies. Build scalable applications with TanStack, testing, observability, SEO/LLM optimization, and AI workflows via real-world projects.
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Key Features
- Master Next.js App Router, RSC, and modern rendering strategies for production-grade applications
- Build scalable systems with TanStack, testing, observability, SEO optimization, and AI workflows
- Learn through real-world projects: booking systems, dashboards, and API documentation platforms
Book Description
Take your React skills to production level with this practical guide to building scalable Next.js applications. Whether you’ve built side projects or worked in real-world codebases, you’ll learn how to architect and ship enterprise-grade web apps.
Start with Next.js fundamentals, including the move from Pages to the App Router. Learn rendering strategies such as SSR, SSG, ISR, and PPR, work with React Server Components, and organize codebases for scale. Build data layers with REST, GraphQL, and tRPC, and manage server state with TanStack Query.
Cover production concerns with testing using Vitest and Playwright, observability with Sentry, performance optimization through Core Web Vitals, plus SEO and LLM visibility. Use Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui for modern UI workflows, integrate AI-assisted development, and apply Model Context Protocol (MCP) to improve developer experience. Strengthen reliability with error handling, caching, and authentication patterns.
Put everything into practice through three projects: a booking system with auth and Stripe, a multilingual financial dashboard, and an API documentation platform. Finish with deployment patterns across Vercel, Docker, and CDNs, including environment management and CI/CD workflows.
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What you will learn
- Master App Router, RSC, and choose optimal rendering strategies
- Build scalable architectures with modern data fetching and TanStack
- Implement comprehensive testing with Vitest, Playwright, and MSW
- Optimize performance, Core Web Vitals, SEO, and LLM discoverability
- Set up effective observability and monitoring for production apps
- Style applications with Tailwind CSS, shadcn UI, and CSS-in-JS
- Integrate AI workflows and MCP for enhanced developer experience
- Deploy to Vercel, Docker, CDNs, and manage custom server setups
Who this book is for
If you’ve played around with React in side projects, or even started exploring codebases with real users, but now want to level up, this book is for you. Learn the full breadth of the frontend landscape at a production level using React’s full-stack framework, Next.js, and how to build for real-world scale across multiple dimensions.
Table of Contents
- A brief introduction to Next.js and why you may need it
- The history of Next.js and the evolution from Pages to App router
- Exploring different rendering strategies (and use cases)
- Next.js basics and built-in components
- Codebase Organization
- Data Fetching in Next.js
- Modern state management landscape
- TanStack and Next.js
- CSS and built-in styling methods
- Using UI Frameworks
- Testing Next.js
- Web Core Vitals and Performance
- Effective Observability
- SEO & LLM Optimization
- Different deployment platforms-
- DX Enhancements & MCP Usage
- Building a booking system (Airbnb style
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About the Author
Neciu Dan is the technical co-founder and tech lead of CareerOS, where he spearheads the development, maintenance, and scaling of the main application. Bringing over 12 years of engineering expertise to the table, Dan has a proven track record in the tech industry, having previously served as a Senior Product Engineer at the New York e-commerce brand, AdoreMe, and as a Senior Software Engineer at the food delivery company, Glovo.
Beyond his technical contributions, Dan is an esteemed international speaker and mentor. He passionately promotes best practices for development, with a keen focus on testing, accessibility, and security. His recent speaking engagements include famous conferences like React Alicante, UtahJS, Techorama Belgium, and Frontmania Netherlands.
Faris Aziz is a Staff-level engineer, international conference speaker, and workshop instructor specializing in React, Next.js, web architecture, resilient systems, and engineering leadership. He has worked across early-stage startups and scaling organizations, from founding teams to companies growing from 1 to 100+ people, including hands-on experience in cross-functional engineering management.
As a front-end and systems-focused engineer, Faris specializes in fintech, monetization, and payment platforms. He has built and architected systems used by tens of millions of users and designed payment and subscription flows processing tens of millions of dollars in transactions. His work spans Connected TV, fintech, SaaS, and fitness, working at companies such as Smallpdf, Fiit, Discovery, GCN, Eurosport, and Navro. His focus is on building user-centric, high-performance, and maintainable systems with strong emphasis on observability, reliability, and scale.
Faris is also the organizer of the ZurichJS meetup and ZurichJS Conf and is a widely respected conference speaker and workshop instructor in the React, Next.js, payments, architecture, and TanStack ecosystem.
Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
