Pretty sure you use it because vercel likes the frontend engineers who don't kno...

van_de_builder · on Nov 1, 2023

Yes. Learned this really quickly.

I want to leverage Next.js but not Vercel (if I don't have to). I have experience with backend and devops, so I care about and want to deal with the backend myself (cost-savings, control, decoupling).

The sentiment and complaints seem to sum up to, "if you're using Next.js, you basically [or eventually] have to use Vercel." But I do not want this to be true. That said, I also don't want to sacrifice benefits of Next.js or have to "fix" things constantly or unnecessarily.

leerob · on Oct 28, 2023

There's a lot of misunderstanding of what "frontend" and "backend" are: https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/frontend-backend/

hu3 · on Oct 28, 2023

Perhaps with desktop apps or low level systems it can get confusing but for traditional web the definition is usually:

If it runs in the browser, it's frontend. Server? Backend.

There's SSR but the name itself clarifies: Server Side Rendering.