next.js/examples/with-pkg/README.md

Example with pkg

How to use

Using create-next-app

Download create-next-app to bootstrap the example:

npm i -g create-next-app
create-next-app --example with-pkg with-pkg-app

Download manually

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/zeit/next.js/tar.gz/canary | tar -xz --strip=2 next.js-canary/examples/with-pkg
cd with-pkg

Install it and run:

npm install
npm run dev

Deploy it to the cloud with now (download)

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The idea behind the example

This example demostrate how you can use pkg to create a binary version of a Next.js application.

To do it we need to create at least a super simple custom server that allow us to run node server.js instead of next or next start. We also need to create a index.js that works as the entry point for pkg, in that file we force to set NODE_ENV as production.