Deploying a Next.js app with Docker and Nginx on GCP

A Comprehensive Guide to Deploying Next.js Apps with Docker, Nginx, and Let’s Encrypt on GCP In this blog post, we will cover the deployment of a Next.js website or blog using Docker, Nginx, and Let’s Encrypt on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If you do not have a Next.js project that you can work with, pull one of the template projects like the Next.js blog starter to follow along with. This post won’t work with the internals of Next.js, so any application that builds successfully will work here. ...

April 9, 2023 · 10 min · Paul Schick

Adding a Sitemap to Nextjs

Adding a Sitemap and Robots.txt to a Next.js Site Overview Sitemaps serve as a directory of the pages and content on your website, and creating these files is one of the most basic SEO steps to take. A sitemap is essentially a roadmap to the pages on your website. It can be in either HTML or XML format, with the latter used in the next-sitemap package that I’ll discuss here. ...

February 20, 2023 · 3 min · Paul Schick