serverless-next.js VS lift

I'm currently waiting SST v2 to be released where they will use https://open-next.js.org instead of https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js

To deploy the app, I had the requirement to use AWS as a cloud-provider, with a limited budget, so neither Vercel (a safe choice, as it is the company which develops Next.js), nor a containerized solution like the managed AWS ECS Fargate service could satisfy my needs. Then, I started with a serverless hosting thanks to the serverless-next project, which provides a serverless plugin or a CDK construct to deploy a Next.js stack. However, this project is no more well-maintained and new Next.js features (like middlewares, etc.) are not supported.

If you have the time and resources, I'd suggest to take a look at SST.dev and or OpenNext (created by the SST people). With that ISR should work (although they still seem to work on upgrading to v12). Or take a look at https://github.com/sladg/nextjs-lambda to run NextJS on a lambda exclusively.

serverlessnextjs does not support NextJS 13. https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js/issues/2497

I hate Amplify. I've been using it for around 2 weeks, because serverless-next.js no longer works with Next v13.

Let's mention that it's possible to deploy a Next.js application using SST 😅. This setup relies on the serverless-next.js project and it's hidden behind a construct named NextJsSite. It can be a very efficient solution when you want to ship your application on AWS environment (I use it for a production workload in my current company).

ATM Next JS is SSR (Server Side Rendering) so only S3 and CloudFront is not enough! As mentioned here already Lambda@Edge can do the server parts and is used like in Amplify. An Alternative would the serverless framework which offers a next js deployment https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js .

The template utilizes the lift plugin to leverage AWS CDK and expand Serverless' functions to avoid all the yak-shaving at the beginning. One can always tweak the parameters afterward, be it from the serverless.yml configuration file or directly from the AWS console.

Such implementation opens up a lot of new possibilities: a functionless RESTful API where the only code is configuration-only IaC is not out of reach anymore and can help team achieve cheaper, more robust code base with minimal efforts. Such implementation is currently under discussion within Lift project where your feedbacks on the implementation are highly valued.

Not yet, we're considering this: https://github.com/getlift/lift/pull/52 Any feedback on this is appreciated, ideally in the pull request -> we use that to measure interest. We try to judge which features to implement based on community feedback.