I have a website built in React Js and the same one on Next Js as well.
The problem which I am facing right now is, the router seems very slow in the nextJs compare to react-router-dom, It's taking almost 2-3 seconds to change the route.
Here are the URLs where you can feel the difference between the performance by moving around different pages.
https://cutt.ly/mhbPkOE (React Router Dom) vs https://cutt.ly/BhbPvHv (NextJs)
I had read some comments on Github where few experts are saying that It will resolve in production. but It looks same in production too.
Please have a look at the following code
_app.jsx
// import App from 'next/app'
import React from "react"
import Router from 'next/router';
import "../static/sass/application.scss";
import "bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css";
import "slick-carousel/slick/slick.css";
import "slick-carousel/slick/slick-theme.css";
import 'semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css'
import { wrapper } from "../../redux/utils/store"
import App from 'next/app';
// A simple component that we created
import {LoaderOverlay} from '../components/Reusable'
class MyApp extends App {
constructor(props){
super(props)
this.state = {
isLoading: false,
}
Router.onRouteChangeStart = (url) => {
// Some page has started loading
this.setState({
isLoading: true,
}) // set state to pass to loader prop
};
Router.onRouteChangeComplete = (url) => {
// Some page has finished loading
this.setState({
isLoading: false,
}) // set state to pass to loader prop
};
Router.onRouteChangeError = (err, url) => {
this.setState({isLoading: false,})
};
};
render() {
const {Component, pageProps} = this.props
return (
<div>
{this.state.isLoading ? (
<LoaderOverlay/>
) : (
<Component {...pageProps} />
)}
</div>
)
}
}
export default wrapper.withRedux(MyApp);
_document.jsx
import Document, { Html, Head, Main, NextScript } from 'next/document'
class MyDocument extends Document {
static async getInitialProps(ctx) {
const originalRenderPage = ctx.renderPage
ctx.renderPage = () =>
originalRenderPage({
// useful for wrapping the whole react tree
enhanceApp: (App) => App,
// useful for wrapping in a per-page basis
enhanceComponent: (Component) => Component,
})
// Run the parent `getInitialProps`, it now includes the custom `renderPage`
const initialProps = await Document.getInitialProps(ctx)
return initialProps
}
render() {
return (
<Html lang="en">
<Head>
<link async rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/semantic.min.css"/>
</Head>
<body>
<div className={'main-wrapper'}>
<Main />
</div>
<NextScript />
</body>
</Html>
)
}
}
export default MyDocument
I had the same issue. And I managed to speed things up a bit by doing the following
This way I managed to reduce the page load time, which helped me to reduce the time between moving between pages.
So in summary my idea was to render what is available as soon as possible and render the components that are associated with API calls later. until they fetch the data, I showed a skeleton with the help of react suspense