Social Media Dashboard With NextJS

Social media management plays a very major role in the success of businesses, influencers, and organizations alike. With the rapidly growing number of platforms and the need for real-time engagement, having a centralized hub to monitor and manage social media activities is important. In this article, you will learn to build a Social Media Dashboard With Next.js.

Project Preview:

Prerequisites:

• Next.js
• React
• Node.js
• UI

Approach

1. Setting up Next.js Environment: Install Node.js and set up a Next.js project using create-next-app.
2. Implement Authentication: Integrate authentication using NextAuth.js and OAuth for social media platforms.(Optional for now).
3. Connect Social Media APIs: Utilize APIs of social media platforms for fetching data, posting content, and managing accounts.(Further Enhancement work)
4. Develop Dashboard Features: Building components for overview of the growth from different social media platform comparing all together in a single place.

Steps to Create Social Media Dashboard With Next.js

Step 1. Set up Next.js project using the command:

npx create-next-app social-media-dashboard 

The create-next-app command will sets up everything automatically for you, and on the terminal you will see this,

What is your project named? my-app
Would you like to use TypeScript? No / Yes
Would you like to use ESLint? No / Yes
Would you like to use Tailwind CSS? No / Yes
Would you like to use `src/` directory? No / Yes
Would you like to use App Router? (recommended) No / Yes
Would you like to customize the default import alias (@/*)? No / Yes
What import alias would you like configured? @/*

Just go for yes on every option otherwise keep it default and hit enter.

Step 2. Navigate to the project folder using:

cd social-media-dashboard 

Project Structure

You can put any logo you need in the public\assets directory

Dependencies

After following the installation steps the dependencies in package.json file will be somewhat like this:

 "dependencies": {
 "@next/font": "13.1.6",
 "eslint": "8.33.0",
 "eslint-config-next": "13.1.6",
 "next": "13.1.6",
 "react": "18.2.0",
 "react-dom": "18.2.0",
 "standard": "^17.0.0"
 }

Example: Here is the example code to create a dashboard using Next.js.

Steps to run the application:

Type the command:

npm run dev

Output: