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What do you mean? There's so many Heroku competitors these days that the perception has changed towards Heroku being a relic of "how it used to be done". Compet
by criley2 4y ago
What do you mean? There's so many Heroku competitors these days that the perception has changed towards Heroku being a relic of "how it used to be done". Competitors like Vercel don't just do what Heroku does, they do everything better. (And now edge-first ideas like fly.io are catching on)
Another start-up I've been playing with is Railway, who offers 5-10$ of free usage per month, certainly enough to play with react/nextjs app and a postgres db to your hobbyists hearts content (as long as you turn if off when you're done).
If I were to host a bootcamp on starting a web app from scratch I'd do something like stand-up a T3 App https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app on Vercel Hobby https://www.vercel.com https://www.vercel.com . Not sure I'd even consider Heroku for teaching anymore.
- lagrange77 4y ago> Competitors like Vercel don't just do what Heroku does, they do everything better. Vercel does not do, what Heroku does, besides a CDN, they do serverless functions. Correct me, if i'm wrong.
- criley2 4y agoI mean Vercel has a lamdba/serverless feature but you can absolutely point a git repo at it and have it build your site and run your node backend. It's a little more abstracted away, but then again Heroku is just an abstraction on Aws, and the newer era of tools are a bit more abstract than Heroku.
- lagrange77 4y ago> and run your node backend I didn't know that, thanks.