Next.js works great with Payload. One cool feature of Payload is the Local API, which works awesome for server side rendered pages. You get your data from Payload right in your `getServerSideProps` functions.

You'd be interested in the example repo: https://github.com/payloadcms/nextjs-custom-server

The example is set up to manage Pages, but with a few tweaks you'd be able to manage blogs posts instead.