https://github.com/danielres/nextjs-custom-server-graphql-example
simple experiment with Vercel & Next.js with a custom GraphQL server
https://github.com/danielres/nextjs-custom-server-graphql-example
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simple experiment with Vercel & Next.js with a custom GraphQL server
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/danielres/nextjs-custom-server-graphql-example
- Owner: danielres
- Created: 2020-05-25T12:06:11.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-01-06T06:56:04.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-09T06:40:10.236Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://nextjs-custom-server-graphql-example.now.sh
- Size: 1.54 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 13
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- Readme: README.md
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# Custom Express Server example
Most of the times the default Next server will be enough but sometimes you want to run your own server to customize routes or other kind of the app behavior. Next provides a [Custom server and routing](https://github.com/zeit/next.js#custom-server-and-routing) so you can customize as much as you want.
Because the Next.js server is just a node.js module you can combine it with any other part of the node.js ecosystem. in this case we are using express to build a custom router on top of Next.
The example shows a server that serves the component living in `pages/a.js` when the route `/b` is requested and `pages/b.js` when the route `/a` is accessed. This is obviously a non-standard routing strategy. You can see how this custom routing is being made inside `server.js`.
## How to use
### Using `create-next-app`
Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/zeit/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init) or [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/) to bootstrap the example:
```bash
npm init next-app --example custom-server-express custom-server-express-app
# or
yarn create next-app --example custom-server-express custom-server-express-app
```
### Download manually
Download the example:
```bash
curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/custom-server-express
cd custom-server-express
```
Install it and run:
```bash
npm install
npm run dev
# or
yarn
yarn dev
```
### Populate body property
Without the use of the body-parser package `req.body` will return undefined. To get express to populate `req.body` you need to install the body parser package and call the package within server.js.
Install the package:
```bash
npm install body-parser
```
Use the package within server.js:
```bash
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.prepare().then(() => {
const server = express();
server.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))
server.use(bodyParser.json())
})
```