More than  3.1 million developers  read our  announcement post  of  Next.js . More than  110 contributors  have submitted patches, examples or improved our documentation. Over  10,000 developers  have starred us on  GitHub . Today, we are proud to introduce  Next 2.0  to the world. What follows is a quick summary of every new feature and improvement we have made. Link to heading React Made Easy and Simple Next.js is a very slim yet powerful framework. Place React components in a  pages  directory and running  next , and you'll get automatic code splitting, routing, hot code reloading and universal (server-side and client-side) rendering. The "Hello World" of Next.js, as presented in our introductory post. It's  easy  because it's one command for development ( next ), and two others ( next build  and  next start ) for a production-ready app. It's  simple  because it composes really well.…