Design
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Layouts That Scale
Use shared layouts to keep navigation, spacing, and metadata consistent.
By Sylla on
Layouts are one of the most useful routing primitives in Next.js. They let you share UI across pages without repeating wrappers in every route.
A root layout usually owns document structure, global styles, and top-level navigation. Nested layouts can add section-specific navigation or constraints.
For a learning project, keeping layout files small makes it easier to see exactly which routes inherit which UI.