Best of both worlds: Serverless Cloud + Next.js

Serverless Cloud and Vercel can be combined to build scalable applications with Next.js frontends and serverless backends. The CloudPics example demonstrates this integration: a photo upload app where Next.js handles the frontend with server-side rendering on Vercel, while Serverless Cloud manages the API, storage, and image processing. The setup involves running both platforms locally in separate terminals, then deploying the backend with a single command and the frontend through Vercel CLI. API requests are routed from the Next.js frontend to the Serverless Cloud backend using environment variables.