What is Vercel?
The short answer
Vercel is a hosting platform for front-end frameworks, especially Next.js, that deploys from Git and serves sites from a global edge network.
Vercel, explained
Every push can create a preview URL, and promoting a preview to production is a single step.
Questions people ask about Vercel
What is Vercel?
Vercel is a hosting platform for front-end frameworks, especially Next.js, that deploys from Git and serves sites from a global edge network.
Related terms
Next.js is a React framework for building websites and web apps, adding routing, server rendering, static generation and API routes on top of React.
NetlifyNetlify is a hosting platform for static and Jamstack sites with Git-based deploys, forms, serverless functions and preview builds.
DeployTo deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
Preview deploymentA preview deployment is a temporary, shareable URL of a site built from one branch or pull request, so changes can be reviewed live before release.
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