How to dynamically create subpages/subroutes in NextJS? - next.js

Question

I want to create subpages dynamically like
example.com/test/index1
example.com/test/index2
example.com/test/index3
example.com/test/index4
.......
or something like this
example.com/test/[index1]
example.com/test/[index2]
example.com/test/[index3]
The subpages should be created based on the number of indexes. in the base/parent page
I am totally unable to figure out a way to handle something like this
Help would be much appreciated

Answer 1

Nextjs has file system based routing. To create a dynamic route for the app you just need to create a js/ts file with a name similar to [slug].js(where slug will be the route param for the dynamic route) in the pages directory. In that file, you can write all the logic for data-fetching and export a React component as default export which will be used to render the page.
For your use case, the directory structure and some pseudo-code for the page might look something like this
// directory structure
- pages/
- test/
- [slug].js
In [slug].js The example below uses getServerSideProps as data-fetching method which will be used to fetch the data required for the page on request for that page from a client.
// data-fetching methods
export const getServerSideProps = async (ctx) => {
// you have access to the route param slug in the ctx object
const slug = ctx.params.slug
// fetch the data required for the page by a database query or from a remote API
// return the fetched data as props
return {
props: /* fetched-data */
}
}
// the page component
const SomeDynamicPage = (props) => {
// props will contain the data that was returned from the data-fetching method-
// getServerSideProps
return (
<>
<h1>Some page</h1>
<div>
/* some content based on the received props*/
</div>
</>
)
}
export default SomeDynamicPage;
There are additional data-fetching methods (getStaticProps, getStaticPaths, getInitialProps) which may be useful depending on different use cases. Read more about data-fetching and dynamic routes in nextjs docs.