Next.js delivers web pages with faster load times by combining server-side rendering and static site generation. This significantly enhances the user experience, particularly on mobile devices or slow internet connections, leading to better engagement and conversion rates.
One of the major challenges with React applications is SEO due to their client-side rendering nature. Next.js addresses this by enabling server-side rendering and static site generation, which help web crawlers and search engines index the content effectively, improving the visibility of the web pages in search engine results.
Next.js offers features like hot reloading, automatic routing, and a plugin system, which streamline the web development process. These built-in tools reduce setup time and allow developers to focus more on writing the application than configuring various dependencies.
The framework's support for static site generation and server-side rendering makes it easier to scale applications across millions of pages and users. The static generation serves pages at CDN speeds, which can handle spikes in traffic more efficiently than traditional server-rendered approaches.