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Payload Draft Preview Example Front-End

This is a Next.js app using the Pages Router. It was made explicitly for Payload's Draft Preview Example.

This example uses the Pages Router, the legacy API of Next.js. If your app is using the latest App Router, check out the official App Router Example.

Getting Started

Payload

First you'll need a running Payload app. There is one made explicitly for this example and can be found here. If you have not done so already, clone it down and follow the setup instructions there. This will provide all the necessary APIs that your Next.js app requires for authentication.

Next.js

  1. Clone this repo
  2. cd into this directory and run yarn or npm install
  3. cp .env.example .env to copy the example environment variables
  4. yarn dev or npm run dev to start the server
  5. open http://localhost:3001 to see the result

Once running you will find a couple seeded pages on your local environment with some basic instructions. You can also start editing the pages by modifying the documents within Payload. See the Draft Preview Example for full details.

Learn More

To learn more about Payload and Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

You can check out the Payload GitHub repository as well as the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!

Deployment

The easiest way to deploy your Next.js app is to use the Vercel Platform from the creators of Next.js. You could also combine this app into a single Express server and deploy in to Payload Cloud.

Check out our Payload deployment documentation or the Next.js deployment documentation for more details.