--- title: I Spent 8 Hours Proving I Was Wrong | daily.dev description: A developer attempts to migrate a Next.js application from Vercel to Cloudflare and Netlify, spending 8 hours adding edge runtime exports and debugging... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nmiayd3q1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Spent 8 Hours Proving I Was Wrong | daily.dev og:description: A developer attempts to migrate a Next.js application from Vercel to Cloudflare and Netlify, spending 8 hours adding edge runtime exports and debugging... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nmiayd3q1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NMIaYd3q1.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Spent 8 Hours Proving I Was Wrong **[All NextJS](https://daily.dev/sources/allnextjs)** · [@georgeongoro](https://daily.dev/georgeongoro) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer attempts to migrate a Next.js application from Vercel to Cloudflare and Netlify, spending 8 hours adding edge runtime exports and debugging mysterious failures. After encountering white screens on Cloudflare and random 404s on Netlify, they return to Vercel where everything works immediately. The experience reveals that while Next.js claims platform agnosticism, it's deeply optimized for Vercel's infrastructure—features like ISR, image optimization, and edge middleware expect Vercel's specific implementation. The lesson: choosing Next.js means choosing Vercel, as the framework's design creates a gradient of friction that makes migration technically possible but practically painful. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Vercel: The anti-vendor-lock-in cloud](https://daily.dev/posts/vercel-the-anti-vendor-lock-in-cloud-onmol0gkh) · Vercel · 49 upvotes · 4 comments - [I'm 12. This morning I fought two hosting providers. 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