Vercel Hosting
Vercel is the creator of Next.js. Also, and perhaps more importantly, they can host your Next.js apps.
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The creators of Next.js
Vercel is the creator of Next.js. They are a hosting company that is out to simplify dev ops. Their main service is hosting Jamstack applications, which is what Next.js is. You will learn more about Jamstack applications later in this lesson. Vercel can host all of these and make deployment a breeze.
Vercel is a service that you can deploy 30+ Jamstack frameworks to. In my opinion, Next.js is the most popular amongst all 30.
After working with Next.js, it was easy for me to get on board with deploying my first Next.js site to Vercel. Vercel has a free tier of service, which allows you to try it out without any risk. After my first deploy, I realized that Vercel is much more than just hosting. It has built-in CI/CD, environment variables, a ...