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Michele Riva
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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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In this chapter, we've seen how to integrate Next.js with two of the most popular web frameworks for Node.js: Express.js and Fastify. It is possible to integrate Next.js with other web frameworks, and the implementation won't be different from what we've seen in the previous sections.

One thing to consider when using a custom server of any kind (be it Express.js, Fastify, or any other framework) is that we cannot deploy it to some providers, such as Vercel or Netlify.

Technically speaking, many providers (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, and so on) provide a great way to serve Node.js-powered applications: serverless functions. However, since this is quite an advanced topic, we will discuss it in depth in Chapter 11, Different Deployment Platforms.

As we'll see in Chapter 11, Different Deployment Platforms, Next.js is a framework highly optimized to run on Vercel, the infrastructure provided by the company behind the creation (and maintenance) of the...

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Published in: Feb 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801073493

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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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