next.js/examples/layout-component

Layout component example

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example layout-component layout-component-app

Download manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/layout-component
cd layout-component

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

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The idea behind the example

This example shows a very common use case when building websites where you need to repeat some sort of layout for all your pages. Our pages are: home, about and contact and they all share the same <head> settings, the <nav> and the <footer>. Further more, the title (and potentially other head elements) can be sent as a prop to the layout component so that it's customizable in all pages.