Is there a way to disable the pages functionality in Nextjs 15 RC

[robahtou]

Summary

We're beginning to upgrade to Nextjs 15 RC to see what we need to update (we are on v14@latest). One of the things we'd like to use in our src folder is a folder called pages. We have our routes listed using the app router (folder/files) and that works great. And from a code organizing POV we'd like to create a folder called pages and add components there as well. (without of course having those components (folder/files) in any way automatically used for routing).

Currently, if we add the pages folder and add an index.tsx or a MyComponent/index.tsx, they are also treaded as a route and will be rendered as a page in the browser.

We also attempted to use pageExtensions: ['page.tsx', 'page.ts', 'page.jsx', 'page.js'] in the config file but then we'll have to update ALL our files in the app router directory as well.

Is there a way to just disable the pages functionality and have it be a 'dumb' folder?

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[jdhiro]

Just ran into this as well, migrating an app from Vite to Next. The existing router uses the pages directory, and I spent about a day debugging why it wouldn't build!

Since we aren't using Next pages router, it would nice to disable it.

[ovchingus]

I've just renamed pages to pagez, so it works for now.

Btw we need a proper solution, as there is app folder for routing purposes, it would be great to disable pages router and special rules for pages folder