Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A by rymate1234 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:28AM (#22935229)

Main difference with Vercel / ZEIT is that unlike Netlify, it can more easily have SSR pages.

So like if you're using NextJS for instance, on Netlify you can only really use the static site generation features of NextJS, whereas with Vercel you have SSR pages as well as the API functions.

Also Vercel _can_ do full standard servers if needed, including for NodeJS https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#advanced-usage/advanced-nod... or Python https://vercel.com/docs/runtimes#advanced-usage/advanced-pyt...

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Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A by pier25 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:03AM (#22935508)

But Netlify also has cloud functions, no?

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Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A by dance2die on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:23PM (#22941397)

Not for SSR.

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Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A by pier25 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:22AM (#22953333)

Surely you can output HTML from any cloud function.

I guess the difference with Zeit is in the routing?

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