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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

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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/
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Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by philipallstar on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:04PM (#46660920)
How is it vendor locked?
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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.
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