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Deployment (SSR) ​

Polen can generate a traditional serverful app (Node.js) with server-side rendering for good SEO and performance.

Building ​

sh
npx polen build --architecture ssr

This creates a self-contained Node.js app in the build/ directory.

Running ​

Just use NodeJS. By default listens on port 3000.

sh
node build/app.js

Environment Variables ​

PORT ​

Optionally set the port the server listens on. Overrides port build configuration if given. Example:

sh
PORT=8080 node build/app.js

Platform Targets ​

The generated app is a standard Node.js app. One easy way to deploy is with docker or similar combined with a containerized hosting platform, e.g.:

Future Features ​

Polen will eventually have serverful features like user context integration. Currently there are no particular advantages over static generation, so we generally recommend using the SSG build which gives you more deployment options and better runtime performance.