Deploy a NextJS application using GitLab CI/CD & Docker on DigitalOcean Droplet Ubuntu 18.04

Deploy a NextJS application using GitLab CI/CD & Docker on DigitalOcean Droplet Ubuntu 18.04

1 — Create NextJS application on your local machine

To create a Next.js app, open your terminal, cd into the directory you’d like to create the app in, and run the following command:

npx create-next-app nextjs-blog

You now have a new directory called nextjs-blog. Let’s cd into it:

cd nextjs-blog

Then, run the following command:

npm run dev

This starts your Next.js app’s “development server” (more on this later) on port 3000.

Let’s check to see if it’s working. Open http://localhost:3000 from your browser.

http://localhost:3000

2 — Set up GitLab

Now, you will be pushing your NextJS application to a GitLab repository. Head over to GitLab’s Website and log into your account or create an account if you do not have one already.