next-payload

leonardstruck

last month

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last month

  Hey @leonardstruck these are all great questions! I have not personally seen what

  next-auth

  does but it sounds interesting. But here's our thinking:

  
  

  
  

  Vercel themselves say that bundling everything into a single serverless handler is an anti-pattern (

  https://vercel.com/guides/using-express-with-vercel

  ) and I tend to agree. Specifically, bundling into one endpoint will make it harder to keep our serverless JS bundles

  as small as possible.

  We are going to continue to move toward minimizing bundle size, which will improve cold starts and then in the future allow us to deploy as edge functions. So the name of the game is to keep everything as deliberate as possible.

  
  
  

  We are actually about to release an update to the

  next-payload

  package that does exactly what you suggest - keep the handler logic

  in the package itself, so you don't need to re-run next-payload install

  . This will be live within the next 24 hours - and when it's live, you won't have to ever run the install command again and don't need to worry about having the logic in your app itself. Instead, you'll still have stubbed out endpoint handlers, but they will be very concise and the bulk of the logic will exist in the package itself.

  
  
  

  Last note - I definitely agree that the DX here is a bit wonky, and I wish there was a cleaner way to bind routes / handlers / inject pages without having to actually have a file present in the repo. I'd be pumped if there were a way to inject those routes / handlers from the Next config itself, but we couldn't find a way to do that!

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  leonardstruck

  last month

  Hey James, thanks a bunch for the insights! Your commitment to minimizing bundle size makes total sense to me. I'm happy to hear that you're about to release an update to the package that will make things even better for developers!

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  itsjxck

  last month

  Any update on this release? Just about to start a new side project and would love to have this

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last month

  working on it now

  
  

  
  

  you should be able to use it right now, and you'll just need to re-run

  npx next-payload install
  

  
  

  after our updates

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  itsjxck

  last month

  Oh awesome, so it'll handle un-doing a previous

  next-payload install

  ?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last month

  yes

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  itsjxck

  last month

  Winner, not waiting around then