---
title: App Router
description: "The App Router is a file-system based router that uses React's latest features such as Server Components, Suspense, Server Functions, and more."
url: "https://nextjs.org/docs/15/app"
docs_index: /docs/15/llms.txt
lastUpdated: 2025-07-30
related:
  - /docs/15/app/getting-started/installation
  - /docs/15/app/getting-started/project-structure
  - /docs/15/app/getting-started/layouts-and-pages
  - /docs/15/app/getting-started/linking-and-navigating
  - /docs/15/app/getting-started/server-and-client-components
---

> For an index of all documentation, see [/docs/15/llms.txt](/docs/15/llms.txt).

The **App Router** is a file-system based router that uses React's latest features such as [Server Components](https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components), [Suspense](https://react.dev/reference/react/Suspense), and [Server Functions](https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-functions).

## Next Steps

Learn the fundamentals of building an App Router project, from installation to layouts, navigation, server and client components.

- [Installation](/docs/15/app/getting-started/installation): Learn how to create a new Next.js application with the \`create-next-app\` CLI, and set up TypeScript, ESLint, and Module Path Aliases.
- [Project Structure](/docs/15/app/getting-started/project-structure): Learn the folder and file conventions in Next.js, and how to organize your project.
- [Layouts and Pages](/docs/15/app/getting-started/layouts-and-pages): Learn how to create your first pages and layouts, and link between them with the Link component.
- [Linking and Navigating](/docs/15/app/getting-started/linking-and-navigating): Learn how the built-in navigation optimizations work, including prefetching, prerendering, and client-side navigation, and how to optimize navigation for dynamic routes and slow networks.
- [Server and Client Components](/docs/15/app/getting-started/server-and-client-components): Learn how you can use React Server and Client Components to render parts of your application on the server or the client.

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For a semantic overview of all documentation, see [/sitemap.md](/sitemap.md)

For an index of all available documentation, see [/docs/15/llms.txt](/docs/15/llms.txt)