This repository is managed with Nx. The tool allows you to easily manage monorepos and have multiple apps running in the same repo, with a shared set of libs, and a common package.json to maintain consistent versions across packages.

Video explaining the problem: https://youtu.be/7AGjUiXmkzg

The Next.JS app is in apps/frontend

To build it: yarn build frontend --> output is in dist/apps/frontend To serve it locally: yarn serve frontend

! Important: apps/frontend/pages/index.tsx depends on libs/custom-utilities (why this is important explained below)

Goal: deploy the frontend app to now.sh.

1. We could either deploy the whole monorepo, and tell now.sh to look in dist/apps/frontend.

2. Or cd to apps/frontend and deploy just the app.

Problems with above:

1. We can't deploy the whole monorepo because dozens of other libraries/projects might be part of it. We only want to deploy the files necessary for the frontend app to run correctly.

2. Because we're in a monorepo, we only have a root package.json to ensure dependency versions are in sync. We can copy the root package.json to the frontend project just before pushing it Now.sh, but we don't know which of the dependencies in are needed just for frontend (the risk of installing to many unnecessary deps)

3. frontend might depend on some local libs/ (which it does!) We don't know which ones, so we'd have to deploy the whole libs folder - which might be very big!

now.sh works incredibly well (and I apologize in advance if I get any of this wrong) if you push the sources for a Next.JS project and you allow it to:

1. do the build
2. configure its serverless functions to allow SSR

However, if you'd allow developers to:

1. do the build part locally
2. push the built artifacts to now.sh --> which then does only the second part: create serveless functions for SSR and serve it.

If we build locally, where we have all the dependencies necessary, and we deploy the built artifacts, which contains just the code needed for frontend, it would solve all the above problems.