Integrate Next.js with Storyblok

Use Storyblok to manage the content of your website built with the Next.js app router.

This guide has been tested with the following package versions:

next@15.3.1
react@19.1.0
@storyblok/react@5.0.0
Node.js v22.13.0

Setup

Create a new Next.js project by following the Installation page from its official documentation.

While answering the prompts, choose the app router option and answer "yes" when asked to organize the code inside a src directory.

If you don’t already have a Storyblok space, create a starter space at app.storyblok.com, it already comes with initial content and component used in the first part of this guide.

No Storyblok account yet?

Installation

In the terminal, cd into the Next.js project and install the @storyblok/react package.

npm install @storyblok/react@latest

Create a new file under src/lib/storyblok.js and initialize the Storyblok module:

src/lib/storyblok.js

import { apiPlugin, storyblokInit } from '@storyblok/react/rsc';

export const getStoryblokApi = storyblokInit({
	accessToken: process.env.STORYBLOK_DELIVERY_API_ACCESS_TOKEN,
	use: [apiPlugin],
	apiOptions: {
		region: 'eu',
	},
});

Ensure to set the correct region value depending on the server location of your Storyblok space. Learn more in the @storyblok/js package reference.

In the root of your project, create a .env file with the access token from your space.

.env

STORYBLOK_DELIVERY_API_TOKEN=<YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN>

Learn how to get an access token for your Storyblok project.

Add a src/components/StoryblokProvider.jsx file with the following content:

src/components/StoryblokProvider.jsx

"use client";

import { getStoryblokApi } from "@/lib/storyblok";

export default function StoryblokProvider({ children }) {
  getStoryblokApi();
  return children;
}

In the existing src/app/layout.js file, import the StoryblokProvider component and wrap the RootLayout one.

src/app/layout.js

 import StoryblokProvider from "@/components/StoryblokProvider";

export default function RootLayout({ children }) {
  return (
   <StoryblokProvider>
      <html lang="en">
        <body>
          {children}
        </body>
      </html>
   </StoryblokProvider>
  );
}

The StoryblokProvider component will make features like fetching, component registration, and bridge available across your project.

Fetch a single story

Replace the code in src/app/page.js with the following.

src/app/page.js

import { getStoryblokApi } from '@/lib/storyblok';
import { StoryblokStory } from '@storyblok/react/rsc';

export default async function Home() {
	const { data } = await fetchData();

	return (
		<div className="page">
			<StoryblokStory story={data.story} />
		</div>
	);
}

export async function fetchData() {
	const storyblokApi = getStoryblokApi();
	return await storyblokApi.get(`cdn/stories/home`, { version: 'draft' });
}

The StoryblokStory dynamically renders content type and nestable blocks. In this case, it looks for the content type block of the home story.

Create and register blocks

Create a src/components/Page.jsx component to render all stories of the page content type, such as the home story.

src/components/Page.jsx

import {
	storyblokEditable,
	StoryblokServerComponent,
} from '@storyblok/react/rsc';

export default function Page({ blok }) {
	return (
		<main>
			{blok.body.map((nestedBlok) => (
				<StoryblokServerComponent blok={nestedBlok} key={nestedBlok._uid} />
			))}
		</main>
	);
}

Using StoryblokServerComponent iterate through the body field and render the blocks in it.

Stories might contain a body or a similar blocks field which consists of an array with several blocks of custom types (e.g., Feature, Teaser, Grid) in it.

Create the code for these components as follows.

src/components/Teaser.jsx

export default function Teaser({ blok }) {
	return (
		<div className="teaser">
			<h2>{blok.headline}</h2>
		</div>
	);
}

src/components/Feature.jsx

export default function Feature({ blok }) {
	return (
		<div className="feature">
			<span>{blok.name}</span>
		</div>
	);
}

src/components/Grid.jsx

import { StoryblokServerComponent } from '@storyblok/react/rsc'

export default funciton Grid({ blok }){
	return (
		<div className="grid">
		  {blok.columns.map((nestedBlok) => (
		    <StoryblokServerComponent blok={nestedBlok} key={nestedBlok._uid} />
		  ))}
		</div>
		);
};

Similar to Page.jsx, Grid.jsx iterates over the columns block field.

Add these components to the src/lib/storyblok.js file.

src/lib/storyblok.js

 import Page from "@/components/Page";
 import Feature from "@/components/Feature";
 import Grid from "@/components/Grid";
 import Teaser from "@/components/Teaser";

import { apiPlugin, storyblokInit } from "@storyblok/react/rsc";

export const getStoryblokApi = storyblokInit({
  accessToken: process.env.STORYBLOK_DELIVERY_API_ACCESS_TOKEN
  use: [apiPlugin],
 components: {
		page: Page,
		feature: Feature,
		grid: Grid,
		teaser: Teaser
	},
  apiOptions: {
    endpoint: "https://api.storyblok.com",
  },
});

Run the server and visit the site in your browser.

npm run dev

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