About this guide
This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality Next.js app integrated with Formspree and Bulma. 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 Formspree contact form
Create a contact form powered by Formspree and Bulma elements. Your form will submit directly to Formspree, which will automatically send an email to your admin address containing the sender's message. Make sure your form properly validates inputs and display any errors returned by Formspree.Ensure Bulma link elements hook into Next.js routing
Make all Bulma link elements hook into Next.js routing by wrapping them with theLink
component fromnext/link
.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 Bulma elements and composing them into high-level page sections, such as Finish your app UI with Bulma
HeroSection
andAccountSettings
. Use SASS stylesheets for styling your components and overriding default element styles. You can scope each stylesheet to a single component using BEM syntax or CSS Modules.You should find our library of pre-built Bulma components to be helpful.
Get the code
You can get the code for this guide with our Next.js, Formspree, and Bulma Boilerplate. You'll get a complete Next.js codebase with Formspree and Bulma 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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