Next 12.1.0 was released in the last few days and it provides support for On-demand Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR): Blog - Next.js 12.1 | Next.js. Obviously this is a very recent change so completely reasonable that it’s not yet supported by Netlify’s Essential Next.js plugin but I’d love to know whether you have a rough timeline for supporting that on-demand ISR feature. Massive thanks in advance for any answer you’re able to provide, and have a wonderful start to the week!
PS: I’m assuming that Netlify doesn’t currently support this feature as I’ve implemented it in a Next.js project that’s currently in development and can see it working locally. The project is deployed on Netlify and while the new API endpoint executes on Netlify and returns a successful response (I can see it run within the “Functions” view for my site in the Netlify backend), it doesn’t actually trigger a revalidation/rebuild for the specified page(s). As such, I imagine there are some Netlify platform or plugin updates that will be required before this feature is fully supported - please let me know if that’s not the case though and there is an existing method to get on-demand ISR working on Netlify. A huge thanks for all the great work you all do, and any light you can shed on this!
At the moment, that feature would need some platform-level support and the plugin alone can’t do much. Thus, we don’t have a timeline as such but we would follow up if we’ve any updates.
hi there! I can share that yes, we are actively working on a solution to achieve on-demand ISR. I can’t share more details or even a tentative timeline at the moment, but we will absolutely be posting about it as we get closer.
Commenting as a way to track the status here. Have been trying on-demand revalidation out this week only to realize it’s not supported yet on Netlify. Patiently waiting
Nothing too concrete or celebration-worthy at the moment @Zetrick, but this is on our short-term roadmap - something that our teams have been working on.
In our case we allow users to publish and edit notes with a native app + a NextJS web app for the published notes to be accessed by anyone. Being able to trigger invalidation this way is critical for us to ensure the Next app always serves fresh published content after a user edits it in the app. We’re almost ready to release though only understood recently Netlify didn’t support manual ISR just yet… fingers crossed! Will be exploring alternative hosting options until then
