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Powerful Next.js and Sapper.js

Before diving deep into the differences between next.js and sapper.js, let us understand what a web application is. A website application commonly known as the web app is a software that uses website technology to perform specific tasks. In 1987, Larry Wall developed one of the first web applications. I t was a server-side Unix scripting language known as Pearl. Now you all may be wondering what is the difference between a website and a web application, well a website has only static content, that is the user of website can just read that content like a blog, an article and so on. A website is coded just by using client-side languages like html, css and javascript. A web application on the other hand is designed for interactions with users. The users can not only read the data but also manipulate it. A developer generally codes web application for functionality using a combination of server-side and client-side scripting languages. For instance they may use html,css and javascript for client side and java, python, javascript or php for server-side. The client-side script is used for presenting the web application to the users whereas the server-side scripting languages is to allow the web application to store information on the web server and retrieve it when necessary.

Time to dive technically deeper into next.js and sapper.js. Next.js is an open-source development framework built on top of node.js enabling react based web application functionalities. Now-a-days, we as users have begun expecting a lot from the world of internet and things such as failing to reload in an app or web application annoys us, so now, Next.js is now being used widely by the developers to create web applications solely because of its high speed and performance. The main features of next.js are—

Hot Code Reloading- Next.js automatically reloads your website when changes in your code are saved.
Automatic Code Splitting-Next.js is smart to only load the Javascript and CSS that are needed for any given page. This improves the loading time of the website.
Server Rendering: Easily render react component on server before sending HTML to client.

Moving on to sapper.js which is an app framework built on top of Svelte. Svelte is more like a compiler. It compiles your plain JavaScript at build time and you are required to ship only that complied code. Powered by Svelte, sapper helps enhance your Svelte app. It is built on top of Svelte and helps you with all the boring stuff like routing, caching, code splitting and server rendering.

Next.js, a React framework is the inspiration for Sapper. There are a few notable differences, however: • Sapper is powered by Svelte instead of React, so it's faster and your apps are smaller • As well as pages, you can create server routes in your src/routes directory. This makes it very easy to, for example, add a JSON API such as the one powering this very page • Links are just elements, rather than framework-specific components. That means, for example, that this link right here, despite being inside a blob of markdown, works with the router as you'd expect Both Next.js as well as sapper.js can be used to build very powerful apps in the future due to their speed and performance. Both of them have a very bright future ahead in the world of web and app development.

Sources- • https://www.clock.co.uk/insight/next-js-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-use-it • https://sapper.svelte.dev/docs/ • Basic Features: Pages | Next.js (nextjs.org)