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21 Jan 2019 - Henry Ma
“Everyone is an entire world, yet no one could be a lonely island.”
Now: The Global Serverless Platform
ZEIT Now is a cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.
Free - Pay after Growup
Serverless here means:
- You as end/now user don’t need to care about server
- Sources are built into output as static files or serverless Lambdas V2
Values
- Serverless
- Immutable Multiple Deployments
- Builders(Diverse Programming Languages)
- CDN&DNS
- SSL(Automated Let’s Encrypt)
- Github Integration
- Open Source
- See official blog for detail
My experience with Now is a bit messy, which I think is highly related to the V1->V2 transition.
Please do share with @henryfma if you have better practical experience including V1.
The Use Cases
JSON-Server for GFF
"builds": [ { "src": "now/index.js", "use": "@now/node-server" } ]- You can take a look @Huntings
- Compared to using VPS directly, advantages are:
- No cost and maintenance on server
- Simpler deployment process
- Automated SSL setup
- Automatic scaling with global distribution
- Unfortunately, there’s a gap on persistent storage.
Deploying and managing the server_peers of the dWeb solutions
now --npm amark/gun
Then visit the URL in the output of the ‘now –npm’ step, in your browser.
It doesn’t work, due to the official recommended v2 migration/upgrade, which is default/enforced to new users and hence a bit rude to me(a new user).
NOTE: As of the 4th of January 2019, all new users will no longer be able to create deployments on the Now 1.0 platform version.
now -V 1.0 --npm amark/gun
Error! You tried to create a Now 1.0 deployment. Please use Now 2.0 instead
References:
After learning and trying the V2, stuff using
WSS(WebSockets) such as Gun(and probably other dWeb solutions) hasn’t been supported yet, until the WSS support is released.