API Routes

Discover the incredible capabilities of Next.js API routes to effortlessly create API endpoints within your Next.js application. In addition to serving web pages as page routes, Next.js provides the ability to create API routes. This powerful feature allows Next.js to act as both the frontend and backend, facilitating seamless data storage and retrieval through JSON fetch requests. API routes are located within the /pages/api/ folder and are mapped to the /api endpoint....

In my Next.js project, I encountered an issue where calling res.redirect('/') in an API route resulted in a blank page on Vercel after the redirect. Surprisingly, this problem didn’t occur during local development. The URL was correct, but the content didn’t appear until a page refresh was performed. To resolve this issue, I found that replacing res.redirect('/') with res.writeHead(302, { Location: '/' }).end() fixed the problem. The res.writeHead(302, { Location: '/' })....