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RootLayout has no effect on pages

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Rainbow trout posted this in #help-forum
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Rainbow troutOP
I am using the standard create-next-app. Adding a new page like in the following structure is not using the RootLayout. Does anyone see the issue here?
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There are very outdated documentations floating around. Eventhough i am not migrating, understanding this page helped a lot https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/upgrading/app-router-migration
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Root layout (layout.tsx for that matter) is of course, a feature only available on the app dir
Rainbow troutOP
There are very outdated documentations floating around. Eventhough i am not migrating, understanding this page helped a lot https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/upgrading/app-router-migration
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