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Demystifying what is meant by Next.js 'compiler'

Demystifying what is meant by Next.js 'compiler'

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Demystifying what is meant by Next.js 'compiler'

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And one last thing before we continue that I should probably mention for junior level programmers. When I talk about the compiler, I don't mean like there's one specific component that's the compiler, because Next.js is a complex framework. What I'm referring to is basically a combination of build tools, right? It's a combination of the build tools, processes, optimizations, and they all work together to transform the source code into optimized, as production-ready assets, all right? So yeah, optimization applies to that. Rendering, code splitting, all the things that we're going to look at, all the essential high concepts we're going to look at in this section. All of them are orchestrated by build tools and processes within the Next.js framework that work together to ensure that the application is efficiently compiled. So when discussing the compiler, we're talking about all of these tools and processes working in harmony to create a user-friendly application, essentially. So I…

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