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Michele Riva
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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Deploying to the Vercel platform

Develop, preview, ship is not just a motto. It's the perfect description of the company that developed Next.js (alongside many other open source libraries) and an excellent cloud infrastructure for deploying and serving web applications.

With Vercel, you almost don't need to configure anything. You can deploy your web application from the command line using their CLI tool, or create an automatic deployment after a push to the main Git branch.

One thing to know before getting started with Vercel is that the platform is built specifically for static sites and frontend frameworks. Unfortunately, that means that custom Node.js servers are not supported.

But at this point, you might be wondering whether only statically generated or client-side-rendered Next.js websites are supported. The short answer is no. In fact, Vercel supports server-side-rendered pages by serving them via serverless functions.

What Does "Serverless Function...

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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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