Use Next.js when React pages need a server

Cost

Open source. MIT licence, and it runs on any Node server. Hosting on Vercel, the company behind it, is optional and paid.

How to do it

Next.js 1.0 came out in October 2016, and version 16.4.2 shipped in October 2026. Its support policy keeps the current major in Active LTS and the previous one in Maintenance LTS for two years. Today that means 16.x and 15.x. It is used by 20.8% of developers in the 2025 Stack Overflow survey, with about 41 million weekly downloads. The licence is MIT, and it runs on any Node server, so you are not tied to one host. Choose something else when the app is a screen behind a login with no search traffic. Then React with Vite is smaller and simpler. Server pages meet Send the content in the HTML.

Examples

Using these examples: they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

TypeScript example

// app/orders/[id]/page.tsx
export default async function OrderPage({ params }: { params: Promise<{ id: string }> }) {
  const { id } = await params;
  const order = await fetch(`https://api.example.com/orders/${id}`).then(response => response.json());
  return <h1>Order {order.number}</h1>;
}

Python example

SUPPORTED_NEXT_MAJORS = {15, 16}

def is_next_supported(installed_version: str) -> bool:
    return int(installed_version.split(".")[0]) in SUPPORTED_NEXT_MAJORS

How to check

The installed Next.js major is listed as Active LTS or Maintenance LTS on the Next.js support policy page, and next build passes in the build.

Sources

• Next.js docs
• Next.js support policy

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