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Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by HumanOstrich on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:39PM (#46651101)
The same ways Vercel makes it harder to deploy Next.js sites to competitors or for self hosting.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by fady0 on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:33PM (#46651835)
Next.js isn't just a static site generator.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by HumanOstrich on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:56PM (#46652098)
Neither is Astro. Not sure what your point is.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by mynameisvlad on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:33PM (#46653114)
Yes it is. All of the providers support “Static”, which literally means uploading /dist to your provider of choice.

They also have three pages worth of deployment adapters for one line deployment on many platforms, including many built by the community. https://astro.build/integrations/?search=&categories%5B%5D=a...

Did you even bother to look at their site or even better the guides I posted upthread or just decide to pull that out of your ass?

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by HumanOstrich on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:40PM (#46653192)
Did YOU even bother to look at their site? They support more than static generation, including SSR and even API endpoints. That means Astro has a server that can run server-side (or serverless) to do more than static site generation, so it's not just a static site generator either.

And yes I can see you're posting the same lie all over the comments here.

Stop being a potty mouth.

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by theturtletalks on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:36PM (#46652550)
Vercel does not make Next.js hard to deploy elsewhere. Next.js runs fine on serverful platforms like Railway, Render, and Heroku. I have run a production Next.js SaaS on Railway for years with no issues.

What Vercel really did was make Next.js work well in serverless environments, which involves a lot of custom infrastructure [0]. Cloudflare wanted that same behavior on CF Workers, but Vercel never open-sourced how they do it, and that is not really their responsibility.

Next.js is not locked to Vercel. The friction shows up when trying to run it in a serverless model without building the same kind of platform Vercel has.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVL4JMqRfc

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by NicoJuicy on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:59AM (#46656773)
So it is vendor locked by Vercel. That's why there is OpenNext - https://opennext.js.org/
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by philipallstar on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:04PM (#46660920)
How is it vendor locked?
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by NicoJuicy on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:15PM (#46663536)
Recent features are more dependent on Vercel and it's OpenNext that makes it platform independent with adapters.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by Capricorn2481 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:44AM (#46656347)
Can you describe what you mean here? Because I have heard this about 100 times and never understood what people mean when they say this. I am hosting a NextJS site without Vercel and I had no special consideration for it.