Deploying to the Vercel Platform
Explore how to deploy Next.js applications on the Vercel platform using its CLI or Git repository integration. Understand the support for server-side rendering via serverless functions, the automatic preview and production deployments, and key benefits compared to other platforms. This lesson helps you choose deployment strategies that improve developer experience and application performance.
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The Vercel platform
“Develop, preview, ship” is not just a motto. It’s the perfect description of the company that developed Next.js (alongside many other open-source libraries) and an excellent cloud infrastructure for deploying and serving web applications.
With Vercel, we almost don’t need to configure anything. We can deploy our web application from the command line using their CLI tool or create an automatic deployment after a push to the main Git branch.
One thing to know before getting started with Vercel is that the platform is built specifically for static ...