I don’t know if Vercel or Netlify are expected to keep their files between builds. If you save your JSONs there, and trigger a build without cache (example: after a NextJS update), you might lose your JSONs.

You can always save your JSON files to S3, DynamoDB or Firebase Firestore. The only issue is that you won’t have transactions at least for S3.

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You can definitely do that (if you’re sure that data will be saved). This should even be scalable for just building pages from the JSON files.

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Yes, files in /public folder are kept after build.

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WBE Member has some interesting opinions about using text as a DB

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yup, you don’t always need a db and this reduces complexity, I like it

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