As soon as a blog grows beyond a handful of posts, structure becomes more important than design.
Tags and pagination solve different problems, but together they form the backbone of a scalable content system.
Tags allow posts to be grouped by topic without forcing a rigid category hierarchy.
They make it easy for readers to explore related content and give the site a flexible information structure that can evolve over time.
Pagination focuses on performance and readability.
Instead of loading every post at once, content is split into predictable pages, keeping load times fast and layouts clean.
In this project, both features are handled at the routing level using Next.js App Router.
Tag pages are statically generated, pagination uses clean URLs, and everything works without client-side state or query parameters.
The result is a blog that stays fast, organized, and easy to navigate — even as the number of posts grows.
Good structure doesn’t draw attention to itself, but you notice immediately when it’s missing.