Hello World

Welcome to Next Science

This is the inaugural post for Next Science, a platform that combines the power of Next.js 16 with Quarto to create a modern, fast, and reproducible environment for data science content.

What Makes This Special?

Unlike traditional blogging platforms, Next Science is built with data scientists and developers in mind:

• Reproducible Analysis: Use Quarto to run Python (and soon R) code that generates visualizations and metrics
• Modern Stack: Built on Next.js 16 with React Server Components for optimal performance
• Type-Safe: Full TypeScript support throughout the codebase
• Dark Mode: Built-in dark mode support for comfortable reading
• Fast: Static generation means pages load instantly

How It Works

Content is written in MDX (Markdown + JSX), which allows you to mix narrative text with React components. For data experiments, you can write analysis code in Quarto documents that generate:

1. Summary statistics in JSON format
2. Visualizations as PNG/SVG files
3. Reproducible computational narratives

All of this is then seamlessly integrated into the Next.js build process.

What's Next?

Explore the blog section to see how Quarto integrates with Next.js in blog posts, or browse the about page to learn more about the tech stack.

Stay tuned for more posts!