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Yacare Caiman posted this in #help-forum
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Yacare CaimanOP
Hello Folks,
I am currently looking into Next.js.
I have made my way trough the Next.js Tutorial Section and troughout this guide i was met with a Project Structure that resembled something like this:
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├── components
├── node_modules
├── pages
    └── index.js
├── public
└── styles

Now I have created a Project using the command npx create-next-app@latest and suddenly the Project Structure is something like this:
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├── public
└── src
└── app
    ├── globals.css
    ├── layout.tsx
    └── page.tsx

how do these two correlate to one another?
I imagine if i create a pages folder inside app next will automatically pick up on that and turn the latter project structure in the first one, or am I mistaken?

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the pages folder is older way to create routes and the app is the new way
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Yacare CaimanOP
Is there any Documentation/Guide for the new way of doing pages?
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the docs got you covered
go through these step by step
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Yacare CaimanOP
Okay, thanks!
Too bad the Learn Next.js Button on the mainpage links to an outdated Version of doing things.
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well its not outdated, you can still use it
I am still using it because I am not quite ready to convert my older applications to the app router
and probably never will