About this guide
This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality Next.js app integrated with Airtable and Bootstrap. Check out the tasks below to get started. To save time, you can also use our boilerplate, which gives you a complete React codebase with all of these tasks done for you. Okay, let's dive in!
Tasks
Setup your Next.js app
Create a Next.js app usingnpx create-next-app
and then run your project locally with thenpm run dev
command.Build your Airtable contact form
Create a contact form powered by Airtable and Bootstrap components. You'll need to create a Next.js API route at/pages/api/contact.js
that is passed the form data and writes to Airtable. You can then respond manually to any messages and mark them as replied to. Make sure your form properly validates inputs and display any errors returned by Airtable.Ensure Bootstrap link components hook into Next.js routing
Make all Bootstrap link components hook into Next.js routing by wrapping them with theLink
component fromnext/link
and settingpassHref
to true.Create a persistent layout
Add any components that you'd like displayed across all pages (such asNavbar
andFooter
) to your Next.jsApp
component. If you need multiple persistent layouts you can instead have each page define its own layout. In that case, create multiple layout components (such asLandingPageLayout
andAdminLayout
) and wrap the contents of each page.Build out the rest of your UI using Bootstrap components and composing them into high-level page sections, such as Finish your app UI with Bootstrap
HeroSection
andAccountSettings
. Use SASS stylesheets for styling your components and overriding default component styles. You can scope each stylesheet to a single component using BEM syntax or CSS Modules.You should find our library of pre-built Bootstrap components to be helpful.
Get the code
You can get the code for this guide with our Next.js, Airtable, and Bootstrap Boilerplate. You'll get a complete Next.js codebase with Airtable and Bootstrap integration, all the tasks listed above done for you, and a responsive multi-page template. It should save you about two weeks of development time.
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