I am very new to next am running the following API route code from nextjs documentation (this is a file named "hello.js" in the api folder)
export default function handler(req, res) {
res.status(200).json({ message: 'Hello from Next.js!' })
}
but fail miserably always getting 404 not found.
Of course, if I use a Route Handlers in the App Router it works fine. Can you please tell me how I can make this API route to work?
are you using app router or page router ? if you are using
it has a folder name pages/
and usually in the page folder there is folder name api/ then inside that you can make an api route with hello.js, hello.ts.
if you use App router it usually have app/ folder
and the way we are making the route is using route handler, and we can do it almost anywhere on the app
as long as you use route.ts or route.js, and if you want to have pages in app router then we use /name-of-the-path/pages.tsx
So if you want to have domain.com/hello then the folder is /hello/page.tsx
and if you want to have domain.com/api/hello then the folder is /api/hello/route.ts
you can't however use page.tsx and route.ts file on the same folder.
Read more the migration here :
https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/upgrading/app-router-migration