How to self host a Next.js application (with Dockerfile overview)

[@loorinho]

I love these kind of videos. Short and concise to the point focusing on one thing. Much love from Uganda "Mentor"

[@blizzy78]

thanks for mentioning the memory allocator issue, I totally missed that in the docs when I was building my apps

[@shockgalaxy9849]

Just when I started thinking about using railway with next you drop this banger. Thanks a lot

[@alonsoalarconaguilar7113]

Very helpful video, providing an application for my day to day job makes me want to learn Docker 👍

[@ricko13]

im not gonna watch the video right now, but here is your like Cody 👍

[@betim667]

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[@NaniwaRocky]

Yesss was waiting for this!

[@clayton.schneider]

Definitely interested when/if you get that sharp portion figured out

[@WebDevCody]

I tried for another hour. I can’t get this container to correctly work with tunnels when using alpine. It’s like the dns breaks in railway when using alpine. If I wasn’t using tunnels I’m pretty sure you just need to use alpine image and install lib6c like they do in their example.

[@damjandjordjevic1994]

@@WebDevCody don't the binaries need to be compiled with the musl compiler if you wanna run them on a musl system? Maybe you could look at void linux docs, as they seem to explain some of this musl stuff that I can't seem to comprehend :D

[@aham_sammich]

Super useful video! Thank you!

[@ahmedjaber8595]

i can't work without docker anymore thanks for the video

[@tsykin]

This was very helpful for me to understand self-hosting Next.js! I am also curious what's your average bill for project with postgres and nextjs app?

[@dodijacobs]

Wonderfull content, congratulations .... have you created the alpine version?

[@SeibertSwirl]

Good job babe!!!

[@WebDevCody]

Thanks my love!

[@boyo_23]

12:00 glibc is the C standard library for most Linux systems. musl is a lightweight alternative to glibc.

[@gold-junge91]

❤ Nice!! Thanks for that i have not look in too. Deploy with docker but i get for 3 days the same shit error with GitHub actions, so no i try it with docker over GitHub actions 😅 thank you

[@WebDevCody]

Be careful not to put sensitive arguments when using the ARGS in your doctor file. The doctor documentation warns that you could legal your private building on a public repository you get up actions.

[@MiadVosoughi]

I remember there was some issues when you want to scale the app by deploying to multiple pods. Not sure if that’s been documented now

[@aymenbachiri-yh2hd]

Thanks man

[@Mirislomovmirjalol]

Have you tried configuring next_public env variables for static pages with docker? I had a lot of issues with that, and couldn’t figure it out. Then i put env keys on docker image (no sensitive data). Unfortunately, on next js, ssr pages and static pages read env keys differently, and i don’t have solution for that

[@haraldschjlbergevensen4561]

What do you think about this vs OpenNext or SST? As far as I know, using Docker means a lot of drawbacks in terms of both speed and memory usage. For example caching is done per docker container, including Image Optimization, Static sites, etc.

[@WebDevCody]

Honestly deploy to a container and benchmark it against vercel. You’ll notice it’s not too bad. You can also scale up a vps a lot to handle lots of load

[@jd_27]

thank you Cody

[@kevins7621]

Thanks, how to you deal with env variables when using Docker self host?

[@chillydill4703]

About the memory issue, running an SQL-instance will always eat up as much memory as it can due to caching over time etc, at least for MS SQL, not sure about SQLite but could be worth checking out. So I always set a memory limit for the SQL instance.

[@farzadmf]

I'm really curious to know if the built-in server used to serve the Website (by doing `node server.js`) is powerful and robust enough to handle a high load of requests.

[@MightyMoud]

Triangle company hiding standalone to make sure service cost stay high

[@justinleong3967]

Triangle company 😂

[@sandip_1698]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@everythingnaruto5682]

it's literally there in the docs, and they mention it's good for docker or self hosting.

[@rand0mtv660]

It's not hidden at all when it comes to deploying examples. I also dislike some things Vercel does, but spreading false information like this is also not correct thing to do.

[@nicko9958]

Don't you use compose.yml or haven't you shown it in the video? Would be interesting how you'd setup this file.

[@OniTemitope-cm9lu]

Whats that VScode theme ??, looks sickk

[@GUY-i4w]

Can you make a video showing how to host next js app with docker + ssl certificate?

[@patolorde]

Great content 👍🤙

[@antidegenerates7449]

Single thread? How you manage restarts?

[@anonAcc575]

Docker is amazing when it works, but when changing something, debugging issues can be really frustrating.

[@amershboul9107]

❤

[@lili1223a]

my app can't seem to be accessed even though i specified port 8080 on dockerfile and in railway setting

[@ahouse73]

I like the idea of using dev containers for development, first of, whats youre opinion on this and can you maybe make a video about it ? For me (beginner) the hot reload just took like 30s or so, this is why I dropped it, but wonder if I did somethig wrong

[@WebDevCody]

I only use containers for dependencies such as the database localy

[@ahouse73]

@@WebDevCody what do you dislike about it ? And can you maybe try it, maybe you even like it :) I think the idea is pretty smart to install everything just in those containers and develop in those

[@WebDevCody]

@@ahouse73 I want to make sure we are talking about the same thing. You mean use a docker compose file and volume mount your code inside the container and run your dev server inside the container right?

[@ahouse73]

@@WebDevCody yes

[@iasonaschristoulakis6932]

SSR PSR etc are features of vercel that cannot reproduced easily on self-hosted next.js app. Is it true? Self host has some limitaiton or reduction on performance?

[@kritsrijakkot9175]

When I use docker compose to build app have database and app connection inside. The landing page so slow I don't know because of something but I think database query from docker image database slow or GPU and CPU on Docker Desktop not enough (my nextapp image size 1.2 GB). How to solve this problem? When using everything on local macbook is so fast.

[@shaked1233]

What are the advantages of railway on aws for nextjs app?

[@giantseaturtle]

Thank you.

[@sahagarzoumanian7151]

What are the benefits of hosting a Next.js app through a docker container rather than vercel?

[@WebDevCody]

Cheaper, you can setup a websocket server if you want, can do in memory rate limiting, no risk of high bills if ddosed, using something like prisma or dependencies that require binaries will work no problem vs serverless is a pain

[@satyak1337]

what is the size of docker file?

[@remirth_bergström]

I think T3 documentation suggests using standalone for Docker so I never really tried anything else. Crazy if that option is available and not prescribed as default for containerizing

[@rand0mtv660]

It's actually used in their official Docker example, so they are prescribing it for that exact use case.

[@ardianhotii]

How to do it when I jave 2 docker one for nextjs and one for a nodej express api that is the backend for the nextjs app , how to set the env for the api url in the nextjs dockerfile is it localhost or no