Will Nixpacks ever be fully removed?

viking-coding
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

With Railpack now the default builder, Nixpacks was flagged with a "deprecated" label; So I was wondering if the plan is to eventually not offer it as an option?

For context, I have a Laravel website and Railpack forces the use of FrankenPHP + Caddy. While those are working and slightly improved the website speed, it comes with a decently higher memory usage as a tradeoff. For my particular site I am still evaluating if that cost is worth the slight speed increase.
In contrast, Nixpacks uses PHP-FPM + NGINX.

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2 months ago

If you’re worried about cost, building your own Dockerfile is almost always the correct play. When relying on automated solutions such as Nixpacks or Railpack you don’t have much control


viking-coding
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

I'll definitely look into that! Always fun learning a new thing 🙂
I'd just like to know if I should make it a top priority, or if Nixpacks will be around for at least a few months heh


2 months ago

Yes eventually we will completely remove nixpacks, but it will be around for far more than a few months, so nothing to rush into at all


viking-coding
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

Perfect! Thank you both for the replies 🙂


Status changed to Solved brody about 2 months ago


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