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Routing

Next.js routes live in the pages/ directory. You fetch data with getServerSideProps or getStaticProps.

officialNext.js docs (Pages Router and v13 to v14 era)confidence 40%current as of Oct 2023

In the Pages Router each file under pages/ is a route rendered by its default export. Data fetching uses getServerSideProps for per request work or getStaticProps at build time. The App Router replaced this as the default so new projects do not use these functions.

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The App Router in the app/ directory is the current recommended Next.js router. Its components are React Server Components by default.

The App Router replaced the Pages Router as the default. getServerSideProps and getStaticProps do not exist under app/ so the older data functions no longer apply. Old tutorials still teach pages/.