Host your Next.js site as a fast static export

Configuration

Enable static export and disable the image optimizer (which needs a server):

import type { NextConfig } from "next";

const nextConfig: NextConfig = {
  output: "export",
  trailingSlash: true,       // /about → /about/index.html
  images: { unoptimized: true },
};

export default nextConfig;

What works in a static export

Static export renders every route to HTML at build time. That covers most marketing sites, blogs, documentation and portfolios.

• App Router and Pages Router pages
• Server Components (rendered at build time)
• Client Components, hooks and client-side data fetching
• Dynamic routes with generateStaticParams
• next/link prefetching and next/font
• Metadata, sitemaps and Open Graph images generated at build time

What needs a server

Route handlers that read the request, Server Actions, Proxy (middleware), ISR/revalidation, cookies and headers at request time all require a running Node.js server, so they’re not supported on any static host. For a contact form, swap your server action for a plain form posting to /_forms/contact.