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Passing data from server to client components

Passing data from server to client components

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Passing data from server to client components

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Hello and welcome. In this session, I'm going to guide you through a fundamental concept in Next.js 16, how to pass data from a server component to a client component. This is a crucial pattern for building modern, efficient web applications. You'll learn how to fetch data on the server, where it's fast and secure, and then hand that data over to a client component handle the user interface and interactivity. This approach helps you maintain a clean separation of concerns, keeping your server logic and client logic neatly organized. Let's start by looking at our initial setup in the Courses page. This is a server component, which is the default in the Next.js app router. The main component, Courses page, is also an async function. This is a key feature here. It allows you to use await at the top level to fetch data before the page even begins to render. I call await getCourses() to get our course data. In the JSX, I'm simply mapping over the courses array to render an unordered list…

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