Frontend

OpenNext exists because no one at CloudFlare or SST seem to understand (or want to acknowledge), that Next.js deployed outside of Vercel is a dynamic Node.js app and not a static site with interactive bits.

Naturally, you can't just upload it to an S3 bucket and call it a day.

Maybe they should just switch to Astro?

what about deploying to railway.app ? same issues? I had so many issues with Astro. sparse docs, no community. have things changed?

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i’m using railway for servers. what are the concerns beyond that? i think my site has very little static data so im not sure what is the real value here.

Haven’t tried Next.js on Railway, though it would not be much different to deploying it on a VPS like Digital Ocean, etc.

As for Astro, there are tons of docs and the community is way bigger than it used to be, so you might be in luck. However, I wouldn’t treat Astro like a full stack framework: it’s not.