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90 points vednig | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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Etheryte ◴[20 Nov 24 23:05 UTC] No.42199068[source]▶
I haven't really followed Next.js and the related ecosystem closely, what does this project do exactly? If I look at Next.js docs [0], they have three options for self-hosting: using a Node server, using a Docker container or as an SPA. Is this project a wrapper around one of those or is it something else entirely? Or to perhaps ask differently, to me it seems you can already self-host Next.js, what's the value add of this specific project?

[0] https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/depl...

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1. dawnerd ◴[21 Nov 24 02:02 UTC] No.42200321[source]▶
Confused as well since we self host in docker and it's no different than any other node app. People keep posting that there's gotchas and weird setups but... it just works well for us.
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2. willio58 ◴[21 Nov 24 02:19 UTC] No.42200417[source]▶
Ultimately what you’re doing is scalable for most use cases. You can even horizontally scale that setup on the fly to mimicking what you would get from using next in a serverless environment.