Next.js with Redis

This tutorial shows how to use Upstash inside your Next.js application.

This tutorial uses Redis as state store for a Next.js application. We simply add a counter that pulls the data from Redis.

See code and demo

1 Create Next.js Project

Run this in terminal

npx create-next-app -e https://github.com/upstash/examples/tree/master/examples/nextjs-with-redis nextjs-with-redis

2 Create a Redis (Upstash) Database

• Create a database as getting started

3 Set up environment variables

Copy the .env.local.example file in this directory to .env.local

cp .env.local.example .env.local

• REDIS_URL: Copy the url in the database page Upstash console

This example uses ioredis, you can copy the connection string from the Node tab in the console.

4 Run the app

Install dependencies packages

yarn

Let’s run the project

yarn dev

5 Live!

Go to http://localhost:3000/ 🎉

Notes:

• For best performance the application should run in the same region with the Redis database’s region.
• Alternatively, counter can be read from the APIs instead of getServerSideProps().