Multi Nested Dynamic Routes in NextJs

willholmes

Will Holmes

Posted on July 20, 2022

Multi Nested Dynamic Routes in NextJs

Recently i've been working on a web app that im building in NextJs along side a lot of other technologies (via create-t3-app). However, I came across a problem that I could not easily solve with some googling in the space of 15/20 minutes. So I thought that I would share my problem and solution, which will hopefully help others not go through the endless browsing of stackoverflow results as I did.

The Problem:

I want to have multiple nested dynamic routes in my NextJs app.
So that I can build routes like:

'/product-catalog/123/product/1'

Now before I carry on with my solution, i'd like to add that basic dynamic routing is so easy.

All you have to do is have a folder structure like so:

- pages/
-- product-catalog/
--- [productcatalogid].tsx
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This would produce the route:

/product-catalog/123
(123 being the productcatalogid parameter)
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However, moving to multiple nested routes isn't available using the same principle. I.e. a folder structure like so:

- pages/
-- product-catalog/
--- [productcatalogid].tsx
---- product/
----- [productid].tsx
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The above will simply result in a 404 everytime you go to request the page.

The solution:

Simply implementing a folder structure like so:

- pages/
-- product-catalog/
--- index.tsx
---- product/
----- [productid].tsx
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Seems to do the job nicely when dealing with multiple dynamic routes.

I hope this helped! For more information see the video that I found the solution on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfAxNTmme64

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willholmes
Will Holmes

Posted on July 20, 2022

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