OpenNext
Infrastructure
serverless deployment
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How HN took it
8 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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Low-pain migration off Vercel and cheaper bills
From 2 comments
In the company I just left, I actually went through the process two or so months ago of migrating their Vercel deployment to AWS. I evaluated several options that are listed on…
greyskull on HNThe biggest cost for us on Vercel (several hundred dollars a month) was Image Optimization, and that was because the app was being majorly inefficient with images, in part due to…
greyskull on HN
Useful for teams that want to leave Vercel
From 2 comments
The reason this project is important is because Next.js is hard to deploy if you're not using Vercel to host your app. You can easily run into issues that are hard to resolve.…
taikon on HNI've been surprised by the number of companies adopting nextjs as their defacto framework without concern for the uncomfortable reality that the framework is built to be hosted…
slashnode on HN
Objections
Next.js is built to favour Vercel; self-hosting has limitations
From 2 comments
Using Next.js for self hosting is a really bad idea in my opinion (and experience). Despite of what they say (for obvious marketing reasons) their framework is optimized and…
0xblinq on HNI've been surprised by the number of companies adopting nextjs as their defacto framework without concern for the uncomfortable reality that the framework is built to be hosted…
slashnode on HN
Tied to SST and CDK users have to maintain a different IaC tool
From 1 comment
This in interesting, but while OpenNext is agnostic about the hosting layer, it seems opinionated about the IaC layer. SST is great, but I still use CDK for everything and have…
bilalq on HN
Compatibility may lag behind Next.js updates
From 1 comment
It offers packaging for deploying to a serverless environment (e.g. Lambda) analogous to how Vercel does it. The last question is salient, and it's possible for OpenNext to break…
greyskull on HN
Requests
Support for other IaC tools beyond SST
From 1 comment
This in interesting, but while OpenNext is agnostic about the hosting layer, it seems opinionated about the IaC layer. SST is great, but I still use CDK for everything and have…
bilalq on HN
Edge hosting option on V8, Deno or Bun
From 1 comment
Any plans to add support for? https://github.com/awslabs/llrt It would also be nice to have a V8/deno/bun based edge hosting option that supports the Next.js edge and middleware…
Onavo on HN
Questions
What infrastructure does it deploy and how is it secured
From 1 comment
This is great, but my first question is: what is the infrastructure deployed? Is this a cool resume filler, or is it a serious alternative to Vercel? Seeing something around the…
afro88 on HN
How it compares to serverless containers like Cloud Run
From 1 comment
How would it compare to running as serverless containers (rather than ECS) like Google Cloud Run or Azure Container Apps (true scale to 0)? It seems like using serverless…
CharlieDigital on HN
Alternatives named
Self-hosting Next.js on a Node server or Docker
From 2 comments
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:…
Etheryte on HNConfused 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…
dawnerd on HN
Cloudflare next-on-pages
From 1 comment
To clarify in the specific case of deploying to cloudflare workers, you can use cloudflares next-on-pages at the expense of a constrained "Edge" runtime. -…
hi_hi on HN
Remix and React Router
From 2 comments
> especially given the CTO's desire to also migrate off of Next.js To Remix?
pier25 on HNRemix is growing, and when react router 7 lets you add SSR into any react SPA, I would guess next's market share will slowly shrink in part for that reason
willsmith72 on HN