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Next.js params

Next.js params

Hello, and welcome! In this session, we'll dive into one of Next.js' most powerful features, dynamic routing with params. Our goal is to create a detailed course page for our project. When a user clicks on a course, they'll be taken to a unique page that displays all the information about that specific course. We'll achieve this by capturing a unique identifier, or slug, from the URL using Next.js params and then using that slug to fetch and display the correct data from our database. Let's get started! Alright, let's get our hands dirty and start building this dynamic route. The first thing we need to do is create a specific folder structure within our src slash app directory. We're going to create a folder named slug inside the course folder. The square brackets are key here. They tell Next.js that this is a dynamic segment. And slug is the name of the parameter we'll be using to identify each course. Finally, within the slug folder, we'll create our page.js file. This is where the…

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