Next.js - Error: only absolute urls are supported

As the error states, you will have to use an absolute URL for the fetch you're making. I'm assuming it has something to do with the different environments (client & server) on which your code can be executed. Relative URLs are just not explicit & reliable enough in this case.

One way to solve this would be to just hardcode the server address into your fetch request, another to set up a config module that reacts to your environment:

/config/index.js

const dev = process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production';

export const server = dev ? 'http://localhost:3000' : 'https://your_deployment.server.com';

products.js

import { server } from '../config';

// ...

Products.getInitialProps = async function() {

  const res = await fetch(`${server}/api/products`)
  const data = await res.json()

  console.log(data)
  console.log(`Showed data fetched. Count ${data.length}`)

  return {
    products: data
  }
}

Similar to the @Shanker's answer, but if you prefer not to install the additional package for this, here is how to do it.

async getInitialProps({ req }) {
    const protocol = req.headers['x-forwarded-proto'] || 'http'
    const baseUrl = req ? `${protocol}://${req.headers.host}` : ''

    const res = await fetch(baseUrl + '/api/products')
}

In the NextJS 9.5, we can also use process.cwd().
process.cwd() will give you the directory where Next.js is being executed.

import path from 'path'
import fs from "fs";

export const getStaticProps: GetStaticProps = async () => {
    const dataFilePath = path.join(process.cwd(), "jsonFiles", "data.json");
    console.log(dataFilePath);     // will be YourProject/jsonFiles/data.json

    const fileContents = fs.readFileSync(dataFilePath, "utf8");
    const data: TypeOfData[] = JSON.parse(fileContents);
    return { props: { data } };
};

Ref: https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/data-fetching#reading-files-use-processcwd

Next.js - Error: only absolute urls are supported

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