When it comes to deploying Next.js based applications we have basically two different possibilities: "exporting" our app, or just building it. The main difference is that "exporting" a Next.js app will generate a set of static files for us which can be hosted by really any static site hosting provider. Building a Next.js app is what you would want to do instead for deployment on Vercel.

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