May 2019 Summaries

Vercel dev has been released, providing a single-command development environment that can handle multiple services at once, supporting Windows operating systems with various terminals including Command Prompt, Windows Subsystem for Linux, PowerShell, Hyper, and Git BASH. Setting up the development server is easy using a single command, and no additional dependencies are required if Node.js is installed. The team behind Vercel CLI is working to ensure compatibility on multiple operating systems.

Vercel's Serverless Pre-Rendering (SPR) feature allows developers to create fast and dynamic websites by pre-rendering pages on the edge of its global Smart CDN network, using a combination of static site generators and serverless functions. This eliminates the need for hard decisions between static and dynamic content, providing instant updates even with dynamic data, while minimizing traffic to backend services and resulting in cost reductions. The feature integrates easily into existing codebases and can be enabled by adding a single line of code, using standard HTTP headers, such as `Cache-Control: stale-while-revalidate`. SPR is suitable for various use-cases, including marketing pages, e-commerce websites, blogs, high-traffic APIs, and public dashboards.