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What does Vercel do? - Vercel

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"Technically" newsletter founder Justin Gage explains how Vercel makes building web applications as easy as possible, powered by the frontend cloud. Vercel builds a frontend-as-a-service product—they make it easy for engineers to deploy and run the user facing parts of their applications. Applications have two parts: the frontend and the backend (have I mentioned this before???) The frontend is usually deployed with the backend on a single server (or set of servers), which means infrastructure to set up and manage Vercel lets teams deploy their frontend stupidly easily, separately from their backend Deploying with Vercel gives you nice features like deploy previews, functions as a service, analytics, and more Beyond just the frontend, Vercel has been adding cloud-like features like storage and databases While how you deployed your frontend was nobody’s business a few years ago, tools like Vercel are now (maybe?) the standard for how teams get their frontends up on the web. The Technica

"Technically" newsletter founder Justin Gage explains how Vercel makes building web applications as easy as possible, powered by the frontend cloud. Vercel builds a frontend-as-a-service product—they make it easy for engineers to deploy and run the user facing parts of their applications. Applications have two parts: the frontend and the backend (have I mentioned this before ???) The frontend is usually deployed with the backend on a single server (or set of servers), which means infrastructure to set up and manage Vercel lets teams deploy their frontend stupidly easily , separately from their

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