Create a Next.js app with Segment

a dev guide by Divjoy

About this guide

This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality Next.js app integrated with Segment. 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 using npx create-next-app and then run your project locally with the npm run dev command.
Integrate Segment and automatically track pageviews
The easiest way to add Segment to your app is with the analytics library. Create a new file called analytics.js where you instantiate the analytics library and the @analytics/segment plugin. To automatically track every page view in Segment you'll want to import Router from next/router use the Router.events.on('routeChangeComplete', callback) function, and fire off analytics.page() within the callback. Finally, import your custom analytics.js file in you App component so that it's included on all pages.
Track events in Segment
To track events in your app you just need to export the analytics object from the custom analytics.js file you previously setup, import it wherever needed, and then call analytics.track('eventName', data).

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You can get the code for this guide with our Next.js and Segment Boilerplate. You'll get a complete Next.js codebase with Segment 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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