Next.js App Router: From Confused to Confident in 4 Minutes

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🚀 Next.js 16 App Router explained in just 4 minutes! Finally understand the mental model behind Server Components, file-based routing, and the new "use cache" directive. If you've been confused by the Next.js App Router, this quick guide breaks down everything you need to know to start building modern React applications today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Introduction 0:20 - The Problem with Pages Router 0:50 - The Mental Model: Server + Client = Hybrid 1:30 - File-Based Routing Explained 2:15 - Layouts & Templates 2:50 - Loading & Error States 3:20 - Data Fetching with "use cache" (Next.js 16) 3:50 - Summary & Next Steps ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✅ How Next.js App Router differs from Pages Router ✅ Server Components vs Client Components ✅ File-based routing with special files (page.tsx, layout.tsx, loading.tsx) ✅ Nested layouts that persist across navigation ✅ Built-in loading and error handling ✅ Next.js 16 caching with "use cache" directive ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES • Next.js Docs: https://nextjs.org/docs • App Router Guide: https://nextjs.org/docs/app • GitHub: https://github.com/iqcoding ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👋 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Quick, practical tutorials for modern web development. No fluff, just the concepts you need to build amazing apps. 💬 Drop a comment if you have questions! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more quick tutorials ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #nextjs #nextjs16 #approuter #react #webdevelopment #javascript #typescript #frontend #programming #coding #servercomponents #reactjs #nextjstutorial #webdev #fullstack