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Nested layout

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Nested layout

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Hello, and welcome. In this session, I'll guide you through creating nested layouts in Next.js. The main goal is to show you how to apply custom layouts, like a unique header or sidebar, to specific sections of your application, such as a slash contact or slash dashboard area without altering your main global layout. This powerful feature of the Next.js app router helps you keep your code organized, avoid repetition, and build more complex, section-specific user interfaces. Let's begin where we left off inside our Contact page. Right now, this is just a standalone page that will inherit the global layout from the root of the application, but our aim is to give it its own special wrapper. Now I am creating the foundation for our nested layout. Inside the contact folder, I have created a new file named layout.js. This is a special file convention in the Next.js app router. Any layout.js file will automatically wrap the page.js file in the same folder as well as any pages in subfolders…

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