next-payload VS flyctl

You can host payload within next.js itself on Vercel or similar https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload

Next Payload Demo - https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload-demo Next Payload Serverless - https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload

If you host serverlessly like on vercel, then you have to provide your own db connection, email provider and S3 storage. See the bottom part of the next-payload readme here: https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload

I've been building web apps for more than a decade. From an agency and consultancy perspective, developers can build truly amazing things on the web for any client need. The tools for building websites and apps have gotten better and better, the side-effect has been a mindblowing amount of complexity being introduced. You either end up with some no-code solution that is scoffed at by any serious engineer, or something built out that requires a senior engineer to maintain.

This ultimately is bad for the client and developers who have the resposibility of learning a dizzying amount of tooling just to make something that works. It shouldn't take a computer scientist to build a website.

To combat this we're excited to release a new package that simplifies your stack into a single repo with Next.js and Payload that can be run serverlessly. The beauty here is that there is very little devOps, generated typescript types unified across frontend and back, and the elimination of HTTP API calls between application and backend. https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload

My co-founder of Payload, James Mikrut is doing a livestream with Vercel's Steven Tey to shed some more light on what we're seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWkR-OPXKRU

To begin with, you could go with a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider like Heroku, or Fly for a more seamless experience. You can also do a bit of DevOps: set up a Docker installation on a VPS and deploy your app there.

To begin visit fly.io to create an account. Next install flyctl a command line tool for creating and deploying fly apps. macOS

For frontend deployment, I used Netlify (for the generous free package) and the recommended fly.io for server + database (also cheap package).

Create an account on Fly.io.

You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.

Fly.io is a platform that helps you run your apps and databases closer to your users all around the world. It takes your app code, packages it up neatly, and puts it on virtual machines that can be quickly started or stopped. This makes your app faster for users and more reliable. Fly.io is easy to use, works well for small projects or personal apps. It's a great way to make sure your app runs smoothly for people no matter where they are.

In this post, we'll start from scratch, running FerretDB locally via Docker, trying out the connection with mongosh and the MongoDB Node.js client, and finally deploy FerretDB to Fly.io for a production ready set up.

2- fly.io

Fly is a cloud platform that focuses on global edge computing. Fly specializes in high-performance hosting and provides a global network of edge locations. Fly is known for its scalability and performance optimizations.

But videototextai.com is built using NextJS + Firebase auth + Firestore and a backend deployed at fly.io . Fly makes it really easy to deploy docker containers and that is IMO the fastest way to develop, you can setup a local setup