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Next.js

Used by some of the world’s largest companies, Next.js enables you to create high-quality web applications with the power of React components.

App router

To use the Drupal API Client with the Next.js App Router, you can follow the recommendations in the Next.js docs to fetch data on the server with third-party libraries.

Using app router server components you can fetch the necessary data within the component itself. For example, the homepage component below fetches articles from Drupal and then displays them in a grid.

import { JsonApiClient } from "@drupal-api-client/json-api-client";
import styles from "./page.module.css";

export default async function Home() {
  const client = new JsonApiClient("https://drupal-api-demo.party");
  const articles = await client.getCollection("node--article");

  return (
    <main className={styles.main}>
      <h1>Umami Articles</h1>
      <div className={styles.grid}>
        {articles.data.map((article) => (
          <a
            href={article.attributes.path.alias}
            className={styles.card}
            key={article.id}
          >
            <h2>{article.attributes.title}</h2>
            <p>
              Read more <span>-&gt;</span>
            </p>
          </a>
        ))}
      </div>
    </main>
  );
}

Using generatStaticParams

The generateStaticParams function can be used in combination with dynamic route segments to statically generate routes at build time instead of on-demand at request time.

The example below uses a catch-all route segment for all dynamic paths on the site. Within getStaticParams we retrieve all articles from Drupal, and then our Page function will generate the page in question.

import { JsonApiClient } from "@drupal-api-client/json-api-client";
import { Jsona } from "jsona";

import styles from "../page.module.css";

const client = new JsonApiClient("https://drupal-api-demo.party", {
  serializer: new Jsona(),
});

export async function generateStaticParams() {
  const articles = await client.getCollection("node--article");

  return articles.map((article) => ({
    slug: article.path.alias.split("/").slice(1),
  }));
}

export default async function Page({ params }) {
  const slug = params.slug.join("/");
  const article = await client.getResourceByPath(slug, {
    queryString: "include=field_media_image.field_media_image",
  });
  const image = `${client.baseUrl}${article.field_media_image.field_media_image.uri.url}`;
  return (
    <main className={styles.main}>
      <h1>{article.title}</h1>
      <a href="/">Back to home</a>
      <img src={image} alt={article.title} />
      <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: article.body.value }} />
    </main>
  );
}

Next.js for Drupal

If you’re using the popular Next.js for Drupal starter kit, you may not need to use the Drupal API Client. Next.js for Drupal offers its own client with comparable functionality.

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