Abstract
Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.
We enable teams to iterate quickly and develop, preview, and ship delightful user experiences. Vercel has zero-configuration support for 35+ frontend frameworks and integrates with your headless content, commerce, or database of choice. - https://vercel.com/
Vercel is a PaaS offering hosting for websites and Webapps. It was build by the same team who build NextJs. They handle much of the Devops overhead that goes into deploying a Webapp. This comes in the form of CI/CD as well as a pretty good CLI.
Because of the similarity of services Netlify is often compared against Netlify - serverless hosting.
Vercel support many of the most popular frameworks for out of the box one click deploy from Github. This frontend framework support is part of the reason they are so popular.
This integrated support may make developing less standard tech stacks a little more cumbersome. I had trouble deploying my Go + Svelte based Chess Board Image generator and ended up on Fly.io. The Vercel docs indicate this should be possible and I’m sure it is, I just couldn’t work it out.
They mostly provide Serverless infrastructure and also have Edge deployment as well as Edge Functions.
They have a very popular, well structure, and generous, free tier which I am taking advantage of.
I am currently using Vercel to host and deploy Monotonus. It has been pretty handy to use the branch based deployments to do build testing through Github.
you can check out there docs here