Should I use the Next + Payload setup?

.wsz

2 months ago

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  seanzubrickas

  Payload Team

  2 months ago

  Hey @.wsz great question! If you simply want to use Payload as the backend and hook it up to your frontend of choice - I'd suggest you just start with the blank template. That will give you a compiled + packaged version of Payload.

  
  
  

  You can just run

  npx create-payload-app project-name -t blank

  and that will get you in a good spot to move forward. Give that a shot and let us know if you need anything else.

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  jarrod_not_jared

  Payload Team

  2 months ago

  You could always boot up one of the other templates and just remove the nextjs code / only keep the payload stuff. The front ends rely on payload but payload does not rely on the frontend

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  .wsz

  2 months ago

  thanks for the suggestions 👍

  
  

  I'm already running the blank standalone version which is working great

  
  

  As I'm slowly starting to grasp the advantages of using the next+payload template, I would like to migrate progressively by building the front end of from scratch, by using

  fetch()

  as usual and progressively implementing local api calls

  
  
  

  So I'd like to do what Jarrod suggested, but is there any downside to this method?

  
  

  I've read here and there on the discord that the next+payload template wasn't stable yet

  
  
  

  Also, can I make it work with the

  pages router

  instead of the

  app router

  ? I tried removing the

  /app dir

  inserting a single

  /pages/index.tsx

  hello world page but got overwhelmed with crashes and errors