We built `create-next-app` after we started playing around with Next.js a couple months ago and slowly found ourselves creating more & more micro-next websites. When optimizing React for SEO or fast page loads, you really need to render pages server-side and Next makes that incredibly easy.

We'd been using Create React App for a while for UIs on top of our backend services and thought why can't we just use Next the same way?

Here's how it works:

$ npm install -g create-next-app $ create-next-app my-app

or

$ create-next-app --example with-socket.io my-app

(search through examples at https://open.segment.com/create-next-app#examples)

We have a few more ideas for how to improve (like combining examples!) and would love feedback on what y'all would like to see - let us know here: https://github.com/segmentio/create-next-app/issues