CPCODELAB
Next.js

Deployment to Vercel

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Deploying Your Next.js App

Vercel is the company behind Next.js and offers the best-integrated deployment experience. Connecting a GitHub repository to Vercel gives you automatic preview deployments on every pull request and production deployments on every push to main.

Deployment Steps

  1. Push your project to a GitHub (or GitLab/Bitbucket) repository.
  2. Go to vercel.com and click Add New Project.
  3. Import your repository. Vercel auto-detects Next.js.
  4. Add your environment variables in the Vercel dashboard under Settings → Environment Variables.
  5. Click Deploy. Vercel runs next build and deploys the output.

Build Output Modes

Next.js produces different types of output depending on your pages. Static pages are served from a global CDN. Server-rendered pages and Route Handlers run in serverless functions. Middleware runs on Vercel's Edge Network. All of this happens automatically — you don't configure servers.

bash
# Test your production build locally before deploying
npm run build
npm run start

CPCODELAB's website is deployed on Vercel. Every time a change is pushed to the main branch, Vercel rebuilds and redeploys automatically — zero downtime, no manual steps.

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