# Incrementally Adopting Next.js

DevFeed: [Incrementally Adopting Next.js](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/incrementally-adopting-next-js-3150.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nextjs.org/blog/incremental-adoption>)

Author: Lee Robinson

Published: 2020-11-18T14:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Next.js Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/next-js-blog.md>)

Topics: [Next.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/next-js.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [Core Web Vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/core-web-vitals.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>)

Tags: [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [core-web-vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core-web-vitals.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [next-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next-js.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains how to adopt Next.js incrementally within an existing application. It discusses gradual React adoption, modernization challenges such as legacy code, performance, scalability, mobile responsiveness, Core Web Vitals, and outdated CI/CD and DevOps processes, then introduces strategies such as routing a subpath through a Next.js app.

## Source excerpt

Learn different strategies for incrementally adopting Next.js into your development workflow.