Migrate from Vercel to Netlify

[zackkrida]

Holy cloud providers! We should switch this from Vercel to Netlify, so we can use Creative Common's Netlify account. Currently this is on my personal Vercel account (which I don't mind at all) but before this is adopted by any of our web properties it should be moved to a CC-owned account.

The serverless functions here require a paid account in Vercel, due to their execution durations and memory usage. I am not sure what will be necessary on Netlify.

The main thing we'll need to do is restructure the serverless functions to the style used by Netlify. Vercel uses a pretty simple, but bespoke signature for each serverless function:

import { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from 'http';

export default async function handler(req, res) {
	 // your server-side functionality
}

Netlify serverless functions, by contrast, use the same signature as AWS Lamda functions:

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {
    // your server-side functionality
}

So to migrate to netlify we'll need to:

• Research resource limits on Vercel / Netlify and if there's any new charges or limitations on Netlify
• Move code to match Netlify's required code structure
• Modify all serverless functions to match Netlify's function signature
• Make any modifications necessary for TypeScript on Netlify (may not require anything—I haven't researched this yet)

[rajat2502]

Hey @zackkrida, first of all, I would like to say that this is an awesome application. I really liked the concept of having an OG Image generator.
I would like to work on this one but I am not sure if I will be able to understand the code/implementation. Can you please share some resources/files that I should read before working on this.

[dhruvkb]

Hey @rajat2502, both Netlify and Vercel have fantastic docs. I recommend reading the Netlify file-based config docs and the Vercel configuration docs so that you understand how to replace the vercel.json file with the corresponding netlify.toml file in the root of the project.

[dhruvkb]

The steps after the file change would require access to CC's Netlify account so @zackkrida or I will take over from there.

[rajat2502]

Okay thanks, @dhruvkb, I will go through these docs and then work on this issue.

[Kimbohlovette]

Hello @zackkrida is anyone currently working on this issue?
I would like to work on it