test.md

Why a new Router?

Next.js is special in that:

• Routes don’t need to be known ahead of time
• Routes are always lazy-loadable
• Top-level components can define getInitialProps that should block the loading of the route (either when server-rendering or lazy-loading)

As a result, we were able to introduce a very simple approach to routing that consists of two pieces:

• Every top level component receives a url object to inspect the url or perform modifications to the history
• A <Link /> component is used to wrap elements like anchors (<a/>) to perform client-side transitions

We tested the flexibility of the routing with some interesting scenarios. For an example, check out nextgram.