Culture Index exists to catalog cultural institutions online, and highlight the best practices that inspire us.
Launching with a focus on museums and building from there, we are a resource for both research and discovery. Browse information about online communications, and discover ideas with examples of what’s possible for cultural institutions in the digital space.
As a community project facilitated by Base, we invite you to use and contribute to this growing resource.
Next.js
In the headless approach to web development, the front-end refers to the user-facing layer responsible for displaying content, while the back-end, or content management system (CMS), operates independently, allowing greater flexibility and performance. The front-end interacts with the back-end via APIs, enabling developers to choose their preferred frameworks for building user interfaces.
Next.js is one of the leading frameworks for front-end development in this headless architecture. It is a popular React framework used for building high-performance, production-ready web applications. Next.js enables server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and hybrid development models, offering flexibility in creating both static and dynamic content.
Key advantages of Next.js include:
- Improved performance: Automatic code splitting, image optimization, and other built-in performance enhancements.
- SEO-friendly: Server-side rendering ensures faster load times and better search engine indexing.
- Faster development: Features like hot reloading, built-in TypeScript support, and a rich ecosystem accelerate development cycles.
- Scalability: Easily supports both small static websites and large-scale dynamic applications.
- Flexibility: Offers a variety of rendering strategies, including static, server-side, or on-demand rendering, depending on the needs of the project.
This combination of features makes Next.js our preferred front-end framework at Base for the majority of our projects.