Best of Vercel — October 2024

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    Build Your Own Wheel of Names

    Explore a step-by-step guide to building a 'Wheel of Names' app inspired by the TV show Wheel of Fortune. This tutorial covers how to create an interactive, spinning wheel using technologies like React, TypeScript, Vite, and styled-components. Learn about the project structure, handling participant names, spinning animations, and deploying the app to Vercel. The app includes features for entering questions, adding participants, and dynamically updating the wheel based on user input.

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    Avatar of primeagenThePrimeTime·2y

    NextJS Is Hard To Self Host

    Dax, the spearhead of the Open Next project, explains why hosting NextJS is complex and refutes the common notion that it's as simple as 'just throwing it in a Docker container.' NextJS's unique capabilities around infrastructure and performance require specific setups often tied to Vercel's advanced hosting platform. Open Next aims to provide solutions for these challenges through a community-driven reverse engineering effort. The discussion also touches on the broader implications of VC funding in open source projects, highlighting potential issues and benefits.

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    Article
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    A deep dive into Hive: Vercel’s builds infrastructure

    Hive is Vercel's compute platform optimized for fast, secure, and reliable builds. It comprises key components such as the Hive cluster, Box (bare metal machines), Cell (virtual machines), Control Plane, and minimal API. Hive's architecture focuses on handling potentially malicious code efficiently with performance improvements, including a 30% boost in build performance and significantly reduced provisioning times. The platform leverages KVM and Firecracker for secure and isolated execution of customer builds, ensuring stability and scalability.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·2y

    How to Deploy Your Project On Vercel With A Custom Domain

    Learn how to deploy your web project on Vercel with a custom domain. The post covers an overview of Vercel, the importance of having a domain name, and a step-by-step guide on setting up a Vercel account, deploying your project, and configuring a custom domain using Namecheap or any other domain provider.

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    Avatar of communityCommunity Picks·2y

    assistant-ui

    assistant-ui is a chatbot UI tailored for React applications, enabling developers to build in-app AI chatbots in days rather than weeks. Over 400 developers are actively using assistant-ui, appreciating its ease of use and integration, including compatibility with Vercel AI SDK. Users have reported getting it into production in just a couple of hours.

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