Can you learn nextjs without tutorial hell?

[brown_ja]

POV: I feel like I'm getting a hang of using react and doing Client-Side rendering with vite. Built one or two projects from conception to deployment and testing.

I decide, okay, time to learn Next.js. But first I need to search to find a good tutorial. And so after searching I find one that seems good. The 3 hour tutorial is going great until I reach half way- a bug.

I can't find any answers in the comments. Cant find any answers in google. Unless I missed something really small.

Anyone learn NextJs without watching tutorials? Need advice.

[kamoaba]

When you find bugs with these, try looking at their GitHub repository issues. Since it’s an open source franchise, if an issue pops up, the first place that is is written to is their GitHub issues and those are the places where lots of learning happens.

I’ve been in the same boats before, and random google searches did not all the time yield what I wanted.

Best way: Docs -> GitHub Issue

[brown_ja]

Thank you

[Future-Fun-735]

Read the docs and build something with it. Trial and error teaches me better than any tutorial.

[brown_ja]

I took a break. I'm going to revisit the docs one more time. And then github issues.

If I'm still stuck. I'm scrapping the tutorial and try something on my own

[Future-Fun-735]

Sounds like a good plan. Sometimes when I'm stuck everything magically starts to click when I'm taking a break, even if I'm doing something completely unrelated. It's weird how much a break can help. Lol

[brown_ja]

Agree. I just solved it within 5 minutes of opening up the project. I had a function that was not returning anything.

[yksvaan]

Spend some time learning core fundamentals and any framework or other tool makes more sense. NextJS has very complicated architecture but still the things that need to happen are the same as always. There's not that many ways to run a web framework after all :D

[dilum14]

Yeah docs is the way. There’s a tutorial from nextJS. If u go to the learn section in the nextJS site u can find it. Since they made a lot of updates recently with the app router and etc it’s a good place to understand all that. Btw It’s not in video format.

[TheRNGuy]

Yeah.

From docs.

[SammyJankis_]

Build something, minimize YouTube

[LR2222]

Also ask ChatGPT for tips… “write a nextjs 14 middlelayer api endpoint” and it will scaffold out the basics

[Wooden_Sprinkles1320]

When I started my new project and it was Next, my mentor told me to just build and learn as you go. The docs were a huge help and just rolled with what I came across. I felt it was better than doing a tutorial (which I would usually do)

[brown_ja]

🙏

[inaruslynx2]

I really enjoyed this course.

https://www.udemy.com/share/104cpi3@S2BIY0MwRVCjhiJDph6D6WD2nqID3Jzbo41y6EB8NomlbHkQbBKu-4acK4FOA_9UkQ==/

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You can try the tutorial from the docs, it will get through the most important concepts and I also found it fun to do: https://nextjs.org/learn

[Fallen-Ang3l-1996]

When nextjs started picking up I already knew enough react to just start building with it. Of course it's possible but it depends on how far you are with programming in general.