But I liked it. Now I'm mad.
No idea how Vercel scammed so many people. Founder paid an annual contract of $##,### to Vercel for what should be a freely hosted static web app + freely hosted (within credit boundaries) backend in a serverless container (e.g. Google Cloud Run, Azure Container Apps, etc.)
A complete scam.
Last time I checked Vercel was just reselling services of AWS.
> I guess the branding and marketing worked.
Indeed; I remember watching one of their tech sessions around the Next.js 12 to 13 release and then watching a Microsoft one. One was very clearly a marketing ad.We shortly ditched Next.js afterwards because of how janky the whole DX was the entire time and how much worse it was during the transition.
Now I'm back in a Next.js 15 project and it's amazing that the DX somehow feels even worse!
I am not sure why it is so slow for you, maybe you you can try run this boilerplate (work in progress to make it easy to use)
https://github.com/wizecore/boilerplate-saas/
It uses Pages router, comes with local postgres, redis and AWS sqs emulator. No docker, no cloud needed for it to work locally.
Such setup is crazy fast on my mbp m2 pro.
(Reminds me of Heroku back in the day as being another "hosting" sold & layered on top of AWS)
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