
James Daniels
James is the CTO of Outcome, building a decision intelligence platform for non-profits and governments to manage daily operations and land use in a rapidly changing world. Previously a Staff Engineer on Google's Firebase team, James maintained AngularFire and the Firebase JS SDK; today he's a member of the Next.js Ecosystem Working Group and author of the Next.js Kubernetes Adapter.
Self-Hosting Next.js With All Its Bells and Whistles
React Summit US 2026
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Self-Hosting Next.js With All Its Bells and Whistles

Self-hosting Next.js has always been easy... if you're willing to part with everything that makes it Next.js. ISR, image optimization, middleware at the edge, streaming, cache components—the features that sell the framework are the first casualties. That's changing. James walks through what the Next.js Ecosystem Working Group has been building and shows how you can run a full-featured Next.js app on your own cluster—with conformance results from the Next.js team to back it up.