Glossary term
What is Route Handler?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Route Handler" means: A function in a route.js file that answers a request with data, such as JSON, instead of a page. It is taught in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps. Related terms include Client Component, API, Server Component and Server Action. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Route Handler?
A function in a route.js file that answers a request with data, such as JSON, instead of a page.
Where is Route Handler taught?
Route Handler is defined in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps.
Which lessons cover Route Handler?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 5.1: Route handlers: your own small API
Which terms are related to Route Handler?
Next to Route Handler in the course glossaries: Client Component, API, Server Component, Server Action, Dynamic route, Cookie, Layout and Static rendering.
Client ComponentAPIServer ComponentServer ActionDynamic routeCookieLayoutStatic rendering
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Route Handler?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at intermediate level:
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps: Basic JavaScript: you can write a function, use variables with const and let, work with arrays and objects, and have seen map and filter. Modules 1 and 2 explain destructuring and spread the first time they appear.