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Practical solutions for authentication, analytics, forms, and integrations

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Practical solutions for common Next.js integration scenarios.

This unit covers implementing authentication, analytics, forms with file uploads and reCAPTCHA, markdown parsing, embedding videos, and other useful integrations you’ll need when building Next.js applications.

Lessons in this unit:

0: ▶︎ Introduction
1: Using the router to detect the active link in Next.js
2: Next.js Email Authentication using NextAuth
3: Next.js embed youtube video - next
4: How to force a page refresh in Next.js
5: How to add Google Analytics 4 to Next.js
6: Next.js, how to open a link in a new window
7: How to parse Markdown in Next.js
8: How to add ReCaptcha to a Next.js form
9: How to upload files in a Next.js form