Next.js (Pages Router): Next.js: populate the head tag with custom tags

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From any Next.js page component, you can add information to the page header.

This is handy when:

you want to customize the page title
you want to change a meta tag

How can you do so?

Inside every component you can import the Head component from next/head and include it in your component JSX output:

import Head from 'next/head'

const House = props => (
  <div>
    <Head>
      <title>The page title</title>
    </Head>
    {/* the rest of the JSX */}
  </div>
)

export default House

You can add any HTML tag you’d like to appear in the <head> section of the page.

When mounting the component, Next.js will make sure the tags inside Head are added to the heading of the page. Same when unmounting the component, Next.js will take care of removing those tags.

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	Getting started with Next.js (Pages Router), a tutorial
2:	How to install Next.js
3:	How I set up a Next.js project structure
4:	Linking two pages in Next.js using Link
5:	How to use the Next.js Router
6:	Dynamic content in Next.js with the router
7:	Prefetching content in Next.js
8:	How to programmatically change a route in Next.js
9:	View source to confirm SSR is working in Next.js
10:	Feed data to a Next.js component using getInitialProps
11:	Styling Next.js components using CSS
12:	▶︎ Next.js: populate the head tag with custom tags
13:	How to use Next.js API Routes
14:	How to get cookies server-side in a Next.js app
15:	Deploying a Next.js application on Now
16:	Deploying a Next.js app in production