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Layouts are powerful in managing state across navigation transitions which is vital in single-page applications that need to maintain state without a full page reload. They can also be nested within each other, offering a flexible way to organize the UI hierarchy.

usePathname is a React hook available in the Next.js framework, which I use to obtain the current browser URL's path. It's integral to managing navigation and routing within a Next.js application, since understanding the path allows me to conditionally render components and enhance user navigation.