Understanding Nextra 4: How to Use It and move Nextra 3 to Nextra 4.
Understanding Nextra 4: How to Use It and move Nextra 3 to Nextra 4.

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Nextra 4

Understanding Nextra 4: How to Use It and move Nextra 3 to Nextra 4.

Rajdeep Singh
FrontEnd Web
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9 min readJan 24, 2025

Recently, Nextra 4 was released; Nextra is a nextjs-based framework that helps build a documentation website quickly and without writing any configuration.

Nextra 4 Demo
Nextra 4 Demo

In this tutorial, I teach you how to use Nextra 4 and move Nextra 3 to the Nextra 4 framework.

All the source code is available on Github.

Similar to Nextra 3, Nextra 4 is easy to use, and This article involves copying and pasting code at every step.

Steps

  1. Start the New Project (Optional)
  2. Install nextra and nextra-theme-docs
  3. Layout file
  4. Add mdx-components file
  5. Configure the Next.js
  6. Content Folder
  7. Documentation Reading Page
  8. Error page
  9. Add search engine
    Instal pagefind as devDependency
    Add postbuild script
    Enable pre/post scripts (optional)
    Add

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Rajdeep Singh
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This article was super helpful, I am curious as to why there is usage of a slug path, doesn't do this in their template. Is this to support using Nextra with traditional NextJS?

Well written article. Keep it up my friend