Next.js is MIT licensed open source, popular, recommended React framework. It has 117k stars on Github at the time of writing this article.
We all have used create-next-app but have you ever wondered what happens internally when you execute npx create-next-app?
In this article, I will explain where you can find the create-next-app related code in Vercel/Next.js
Where is create-next-app code?
When you navigate to Next.js, You will see a lot of files. At first, I thought “So many files, so much code, how am I ever going to understand this?”. Well, we all have been there.
I remember, when I was getting started with programming, I would spend good 2 days to understand code inside a single .js file and I have come a long way now to make attempts to understand large, FOSS stuff. Consistency is the name of the game.
Open /packages/create-next-app in the root folder.
There it is, the mystery behind create-next-app.
Don’t forget to checkout the Readme.md for create-next-app.
Conclusion
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