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title: App Router
description: Use the new App Router with Next.js' and React's latest features, including Layouts, Server Components, Suspense, and more.
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The App Router is a new paradigm for building applications using React's latest features. If you're already familiar with Next.js, you'll find that the App Router is a natural evolution of the existing file-system based router in the [Pages Router](/docs/pages).

For new applications, we recommend using the App Router. For existing applications, you can [incrementally migrate to the App Router](/docs/app/building-your-application/upgrading/app-router-migration).

This section of the documentation includes the features available in the App Router:
