I'm new in Nextjs and I want to add a list of components and utilities to all of my pages in Nextjs. How can I make them all available in my components without importing them one by one.
Also some utilities might be needed in getInitialProps function in pages like axios or in my case client of Apollo.
I don't expect some one write me a whole config file for Nextjs.config just help me to understand the configuration of next deeper.
thanks in advance
I would suggest to do dynamic import on each page, for each component and utility instead of making components global. By doing so Next.js will create a small chunks or "pages" without any unused components.
If you load components globally, every page would increase in size but actually not use these components or utilities. It defeats a purpose of code-splitting.
It breaks modularity of your code, because components/pages (modules) will depend on some global utilities implicitly.
If you have too many imports in your component or page, probably, it's a sign to encapsulate that extra functionality by extracting it to it's own component.
Controversially, you could try to add global utilities in Custom "App"
For example, you could pass a React component to all Next.js pages via props of custom App.
_app.js
import Icon from '../components/Icon';
export default function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
return <Component {...pageProps} icon={Icon} />
}
As all pages are instancing from the App, every page would have this component in the props.
index.js
const Home = props => (
<div>
<props.icon><props.icon/>
</div>
);
If you have many components you could group them into list and assign to a single prop, so you can use it like:
index.js
const Home = props => (
<div>
<props.components.icon/>
<props.components.anotherIcon/>
</div>
);
On a side note, it's suggested to use getStaticProps and getServerSideProps for pages instead of getInitialProps since Next.js 9.3.
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