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Day 99 of #100DaysOfCode — DevCollab: Deploying Next.js and Going Live

DEV Community·M Saad Ahmad·20 days ago
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Today, DevCollab went fully live. The Next.js frontend is deployed on Vercel, the Django backend is on Railway, they're talking to each other over the internet, and anyone with the link can use the app. The last 99 days of building, learning, debugging, and shipping came down to this. Deploying to Vercel Deploying the Next.js frontend to Vercel was the simplest deployment of the entire project. Vercel was built for Next.js; it's made by the same team. The process was connecting the GitHub repository, adding one environment variable, and clicking deploy. The build took about two minutes. Vercel ran npm run build against the repository, detected the App Router configuration, optimized all the pages, and produced a deployment. The same build that was tested locally on day 98 passed on Vercel without any changes. That's the value of running the production build locally first, no surprises. The environment variable is the one critical piece.…

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