Customizing the Layout
Customizing the Layout
Probably most people will want to change the way the overall site is structured visually. Maybe you don't want the mini-cart to show up or you want to use your own version of it. The simplest way is to just replace the built-in layout with a custom version of your own. The starter-kit already contains a custom directory that is intended as a place to put your own custom components and containers (or anything else you want to add).
Let's create a components directory in the custom directory if it's not there already and just copy the existing Layout component in there for now. Now we just need to change one import in "core" code to have our new Layout take affect and that's in the _app.js file in the src/pages directory. Just change the import of Layout to come from our custom Layout at custom/components/Layout. (NextJS provides that all imports from within src don't need a path prefixer)
Now all changes to our custom layout will take effect site-wide with just this one change.