NextJS is the most popular ReactJS framework for the Web. NextJS was developed by Vercel. If you want to build scalable web applications using ReactJS, then you should use NextJS. NextJS has built-in support for a lot of features for which you will have to install some packages in ReactJS, for example, Routing is built with an App router, Error boundary, Suspens, common layouts, caching API calls, middleware, server actions, server-side rendering, etc.
Now, you can even create backend APIs using NextJS, enabling NextJS to be the full-stack framework for web development.
The current version of NextJS is 14.