Custom pages directory

[PepijnSenders]

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm vouching for the case of supplying a custom path for where the pages live. Currently, this is not configurable and it's either, ./pages or ./src/pages. Usually this is not necessary, but I have one use case for it where this feature would come in very handy.

Say you have a couple of websites, all with very similar complex components, yet sometimes they diverge and you need a different page layout or some different modules. We have all the complexity of the modules hidden inside the modules folder and the pages are just simple collections of a layout and the imported modules. When we want one of these websites to diverge we'll end up adding complexity to the page, or we'll be adding a new page that is not necessary for the other websites. Following a CAC approach, it would be great to have a folder per website with very simple pages that connect to the modules folder and that we can compile these separately at build time.

Having different next.js apps could be a simple solution here as well, but I'd rather not duplicate the configuration of our app, I'd rather just change a very simple thing and that is changing the path to the pages folder.

Describe the solution you'd like

A field in the next.config.js where you can set a custom path to your pages folder.

Describe alternatives you've considered

An alternative could be having several next.js apps.

[timneutkens]

Duplicate of #4315 (comment)

This has been discussed very in-depth in the issue tracker already and we're not going to allow for a configuration option for this.

[andormade]

If you found this, while looking for a solution, there is a fork that allows you to set a custom pages directory, you can find the link in this discussion: #23640

[balazsorban44]

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