The article covers how to set up an optimal local development environment for a Next.js project using Neon Postgres and deploying it to Vercel.
It includes topics like the best practices for local development and deployment, branching, and environments.
The article provides a detailed guide on how to set up a Neon Postgres project for local development, deploy a Next.js project to Vercel using the Vercel CLI, and use Vercel edge functions to improve runtime operations.
It also explains how to protect Neon database from SQL injection attacks and how database branching in Neon works.
Some prerequisites required for this guide are proficiency with Next.js, a Neon account, and a Vercel account.
Creating a Neon account and setting up a Neon Postgres project is explained with important details like how to set up the Neon project, how to use Neon SQL editor, and how to copy pooled connection string to a .env.production file within the Next.js project.
Deploying your Next.js app to Vercel with Vercel CLI and setting up a Vercel edge function to retrieve user information from a Neon database is also explained along with step-by-step guidance.
This article also talks about sending data to Neon, SQL injection and attack prevention on the database, and creating database branching in Neon.
Overall, the article aims to optimize the development workflow of a project to ship faster and better through best practices and opinionated guidance.
The project is available on GitHub for further reference.