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So you learned how to work with NextJS

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or to be precise,

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you learned how to work with the NextJS App Router,

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which is the most modern and recommended way

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of working with NextJS.

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But if you take a look at the official documentation,

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you might notice that there also is

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this Pages Router being mentioned,

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and in the documentation,

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you can also switch between the App Router

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and the Pages Router.

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And I also did mention the Pages Router

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earlier in the course already.

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Because indeed, NextJS offers two different approaches

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of building NextJS applications.

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You can use the so-called Pages Router

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and the so-called App Router.

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And you did learn about the App Router in this course,

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but it's the Pages Router that has been around

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for a longer time period.

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It's the old way of building NextJS applications,

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you could say,

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though, that sounds as if

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it would be bad to use the Pages Router,

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and that's absolutely not the case.

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Instead, the Pages Router is very stable

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because it's been around for many years,

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and it's being used in many existing NextJS projects.

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It allows you to build feature-rich full-stack apps

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with React and NextJS just like the App Router,

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and therefore, learning about the Pages Router,

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even though it's not the recommended and most modern way

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of building NextJS applications,

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can still be a very good idea.

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And you might need it for the job

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you are going to work on in the future,

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if you are joining a team that's using the Pages Router,

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you need to know about it.

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Now, as I mentioned in this course,

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you'll learn about the App Router,

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which was introduced with NextJS 13,

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and which is marked as stable,

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but which in my experience,

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still has some problems here and there,

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maybe not in all apps you're using it,

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but it still can have some issues at least.

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But it does support, of course,

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modern NextJS and React features

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like React Server components,

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and you can, therefore,

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build modern full-stack React apps with it,

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and it is the future of NextJS,

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that is why I covered it right from the start in-depth

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in this course.

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But the lectures and sections after this lecture here,

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will now cover the Pages Router in-depth,

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because that was the original NextJS course I created,

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and I decided to keep it online

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because learning about the Pages Router

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and using the Pages Router is still a good idea,

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still something that makes sense for a lot of developers.

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Now, if you don't care,

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you can, of course, ignore those lectures,

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you don't have to go through them,

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you don't have to go through the following sections,

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but I do recommend it for most developers,

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and that's why those sections are still there,

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and why now you can learn about NextJS again,

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now with the Pages Router.