NextJS Deployment - How can I simply deploy NextJS like NodeJS on Ubuntu server?

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To deploy NodeJS, I use systemd and configure /lib/systemd/system/[service_name].service file

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[Unit]
Description=Inventory Management System
Documentation=PLM Inventory Management Documents
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment=NODE_PORT=3000
Type=simple
User=superuser
WorkingDirectory=/home/superuser/inventory
ExecStart=/home/superuser/.npm-global/bin/nodemon --exec babel-node /home/superuser/inventory/server/server.js
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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How can I deploy NextJS by systemd on ubuntu server?

Thanks in advance.

jumping_monkey · Accepted Answer · 2025-01-11 08:54:31Z

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I am running it with the following unit file:

[Unit]
Description=NodeJS server, NextJS public frontend
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=someuser
Group=someuser
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
WorkingDirectory=/some/dir/
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/npm install
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/npm run build
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm run start

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The WorkingDirectory should point to the directory, where your NextJS project is.

npm install installs the dependencies in node_modules. npm run build compiles some stuff, that ends up as static/ npm run start starts the NodeJS server.

A lot of people suggest using pm2, but i am not a fan of it. If you are using CDI, you can get the npm run build and npm install into the build process, and then extract the artifacts (the file/folders mentioned below).

Considering the way NextJS works, you should probably only need the following files and folders: node_modules/ static/ package.json package-lock.json next.config.js. Although, this too depends on your project.

Of course, this is not nearly enough for production servers. Especially, since you will need to setup an webserver like Nginx or Apache, in order to do the location Proxy Pass to your NextJS application. This is because, the NextJS application is running under Localhost:PORT.

edited Jan 11 at 8:54

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jumping_monkey Nov 22, 2024 at 5:57

Hey ku4eto, how s your journey with running next.js with systemd? Does it work well? Could you elaborate on the web server setup, please?

ku4eto Nov 22, 2024 at 10:39

Yes, its a production site, the customer intensive part (an online shop). Never had an issue with the NextJS frontend, because it ... "just works". The backend stack is the resource consuming part. OS is CentOS 8 (i know, EOL), Nginx in front. Started with 1.18.0, now on 1.22.0. Site config is very simple - usual 301 from 80 to 443, logs, SSL related things. The root location is with try_files towards a named location. The named location itself does a proxy_pass to the NextJS port. Thats all.

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