I've setup Django + Postgres on a VPS and Next on Vercel w/ hosted DB. Next is leagues simpler and faster to spin up.
Here's Django Postgres on Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
Next on Vercel is:
1. npx create-next-app
2. Click button for DB spinup
3. Copy secret string to .env
4. git push
I suppose you don't know what you're talking about, but Next.js is a backend and frontend supporting a wide variety of data sources. I personally like using Prisma and postgres with my Next.Js deployments.
I'm literally rolling out a full stack database connected react app in minutes that includes a full functional API that can be accessed by a variety of clients.
Not inherently faster than OP's approach.
Like, I can spin up a k8s cluster faster than I can even understand what parts of Nextjs I should use. Doesn't mean that me selecting k8s is the best choice for all problems.
And if we're really racing, Railway.app can spin up deployments AND databases in under 60 seconds. If I tried a speed run, I could get the time down.
If OP can hand configure a python app running on ngnix in manually managed DO droplets in 5 minutes... good on them! The greatest devops of our era.
Also -- I guarantee that a newbie developer can launch a nextjs app faster than hand rolling some DO droplet with python and other technologies. I guarantee I can have a newbie in a bootcamp with a working app on day1 (since it's literally a button click, if we want), while I doubt you could get that newbie out of a bootcamp on his stack at all.
