How am I supposed to deal with new releases in Next js?

Question

I'm new to javascript world. One thing that sometimes terrifies me is the frequently changing libraries/frameworks. I started to learn Next js a month ago, when the latest version was 9.2. a few days later they released 9.3 with a lot of changes in documentation. (for example "getInitialProps" -> "getServerSideProps").

I want to use "next-i18next" for internationalization. If you see it's docs, there is no "getServerSideProps".

What is the best approach in this frequently changing javascript world?

You can see that Next js docs doesn't have documentation for a specific old version (for example 9.1).

How can we survive in this ecosystem?

Suppose that I start a project using Next js 9.3 now. How am I supposed to find specific documentations for version 9.3, a month later?

Answer 1

You have a few options:

1. Update your dependencies whenever it's possible.
2. Keep an old version if you have incompatibilities in dependencies.
3. Find a replacement for an incompatible dependency.

The choice depends on the needs of your project.

Usually, open source projects keep different versions of documentation, so people can access different docs depending on a version they use.

Next.js team has the documentation in the same GitHub repository , so you can find all versions of previous documentation.

For example here is the documentation for 9.2.2 version. You just need to choose a tag with your version.