Comparing Next.js and WordPress Deployment Processes
Let's discuss the process of deploying Next.js applications using Vercel and explore the benefits of exploring different platforms and paradigms. We dive into the process of getting a project live with Vercel but discuss comparisons in the WordPress world, the complicated nature of deployment in WordPress, how different platforms handle them, and the role continuous integration plays into all of it.
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Vercel – https://vercel.com/
What is utility-first CSS – https://heydonworks.com/article/what-...
Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:37 Familar tools are easier to wrap your head around
00:03:22 On Deployment in the WordPress space
00:09:02 First Look at Vercel Deployment
00:10:38 Environment Variables
00:12:56 Errors on first Vercel Deployment
00:13:31 Using Vercel CLI
00:16:16 How Deployments work
00:17:18 Thinking in PRs
00:17:57 Exploring the Deployment UI in Vercel
00:18:40 Deployment UIs around the web
00:19:15 Comparing to Netlify
00:20:21 Taking your Vercel Project live
00:22:56 Comparing to WordPress Deployments
00:24:56 Prebuilt Deployments with Vercel
00:25:26 Can you get to this level of deployment in
00:29:29 Continuous Integration
00:32:19 The Advantage of continuous integration tools
00:34:22 The value of not committing built files to the
00:35:29 Cross-pollination between WordPress and other
00:36:31 Web Development is more complicated now
00:37:13 The slow modernization of WordPress
00:37:50 Takeaways from the Next.js Series
00:41:09 CSS in JavaScript: a tangent
00:44:09 What's Next?
