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#Handling with Navbar and Footer's in different layouts in app router
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Based on the information provided in the knowledge sources, you can use the concept of Layout Patterns in Next.js to handle different layouts for different sections of your application. This approach allows you to deconstruct a page into a series of components, many of which can be reused between pages. For example, you might have the same navigation bar and footer on every page.
Here is an example of a layout pattern:
import Navbar from './navbar'
import Footer from './footer'
export default function Layout({ children }) {
return (
<>
<Navbar />
<main>{children}</main>
<Footer />
</>
)
}
(Source: Next.js Docs (https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/routing/pages-and-layouts#layout-pattern))
However, in your case, you want to have different layouts for different sections of your application. One way to handle this is to use Route Groups in Next.js. This would allow you to have different layouts for different pages, especially if you need a specific navigation bar in some of the pages, and not some.
Here is an example of how you can handle different layouts using Route Groups:
- Create a root layout file in the app directory in which you only place your basic page structure like html and body tag only.
- Then create sub-layout files in your different sections (like shop and admin in the example) in which you place your structure for that section (like navbar for website and sidebar for admin panel) without adding html and body tags again.
(Source: Github Issue (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/52879))
For pages that do not require a Navbar and Footer at all, you can simply not include them in the layout for those pages.
Remember, the key is to group your routes and have specific layouts there to accommodate specific navigation bars. This way, you won't have to pass the navigation bar to each individual page. Instead, the layout will handle it for you.