Summary: Different Deployment Platforms

Recap

In this chapter, we’ve seen different deployment platforms for our Next.js application. There’s no perfect solution for building and deploying Next.js apps because it depends on the specific use case and challenges that every project brings.

Vercel, Netlify, and Heroku (just to quote some) are all excellent alternatives for quickly deploying a Next.js application to production. On the other hand, Cloudflare Pages, AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront, and Microsoft Azure CDN can really provide excellent performance for our static sites, which competes with all the other great solutions we've seen in this chapter when it comes to serving a statically generated website.

Docker is probably one of the most flexible solutions. It allows us to deploy our application everywhere, making it easy to replicate the production environment on every machine.

Again, there’s no perfect” solution for deploying a Next.js application because the competition in this field is extremely strong, and many companies provide excellent solutions to simplify our lives as developers and make our browsing experience better as users.