Get started with Next.js

To automatically render all Plasmic-defined pages at the routes specified in Plasmic, create a Next.js catch-all page.

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Step 1

Create a simple example React component:

import React, { ReactNode } from 'react';

export interface HelloWorldProps {
  children?: ReactNode;
  className?: string;
  verbose?: boolean;
}

export function HelloWorld({ children, className, verbose }: HelloWorldProps) {
  return (
    <div className={className} style={{ padding: '20px' }}>
      <p>Hello there! {verbose && 'Really nice to meet you!'}</p>
      <div>{children}</div>
    </div>
  );
}

Step 2

Step 3

Create a host page at route /plasmic-host:

Step 4

Start your app:

npm run dev

And check that you see a confirmation message at http://localhost:3000/plasmic-host.

Step 5

Open https://studio.plasmic.app, click the menu for the current project, select "Configure project," and set it to http://localhost:3000/plasmic-host.

Step 6

Re-open this project (or reload this tab) to see your component listed in the insert menu!

Later, after you deploy the route to production, update the project to use your production host URL instead, such as https://my-app.com/plasmic-host. This way, other members of your team (who can’t access your localhost dev server) will be able to open and edit the project in Plasmic. (Again, the /plasmic-host route itself is a special hidden route not meant for humans to visit; it is only for Plasmic Studio to hook into.)

Note: If you run next export rather than (say) hosting on Vercel, then by default it exports with .html suffixes (unlike the routes in the dev server), so you would get /plasmic-host.html in production. Either include the .html in your host URL, or suppress exporting with .html with trailingSlash: true in your next.config.js.

Learn more about code components.

Shared layouts are useful for components such as navigation headers and footers. For example, you might have a NavHeader component designed in Plasmic and want to show it on all pages.