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-is-utility-first-css/
- Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
- Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com

• (00:00) - S02E11 - Next.js Part 5
• (00:37) - Familar tools are easier to wrap your head around
• (03:22) - On Deployment in the WordPress space
• (09:02) - First Look at Vercel Deployment
• (10:38) - Environment Variables
• (12:56) - Errors on first Vercel Deployment
• (13:31) - Using Vercel CLI
• (16:16) - How Deployments work
• (17:18) - Thinking in PRs
• (17:57) - Exploring the Deployment UI in Vercel
• (18:40) - Deployment UIs around the web
• (19:15) - Comparing to Netlify
• (20:21) - Taking your Vercel Project live
• (22:56) - Comparing to WordPress Deployments
• (24:56) - Prebuilt Deployments with Vercel
• (25:26) - Can you get to this level of deployment in WordPress?
• (29:29) - Continuous Integration
• (32:19) - The Advantage of continuous integration tools
• (34:22) - The value of not committing built files to the repo
• (35:29) - Cross-pollination between WordPress and other spaces
• (36:31) - Web Development is more complicated now
• (37:13) - The slow modernization of WordPress
• (37:50) - Takeaways from the Next.js Series
• (41:09) - CSS in JavaScript: a tangent
• (44:09) - What's Next?