The React framework most AI tools generate best.
App Router, server components and route handlers in one framework. Its popularity is a practical advantage: models have seen an enormous amount of Next.js code.
Works with
Key info
- Pricing
- Open source
- Category
- Frameworks
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Cost
- Free and open source (MIT)
- Language
- TypeScript or JavaScript, with React
- Create a project
- npx create-next-app@latest
- Needs
- Node.js 20.9 or newer
- Default setup
- TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, ESLint and the App Router
- For AI agents
- New projects include an AGENTS.md so agents write current Next.js
- Good for
- Web apps that deploy to Vercel or any Node host
Guided walkthroughs
Related reading
- Fundamentals
Full stack fundamentals without the framework churn
A longer course on how web applications actually fit together: requests, responses, databases, authentication and deployment.
Intermediate