Loading Initial Values From server/pages

[gchallen]

Great tool! Like others, I'm using it to synchronize pages between multiple NextJS frontends running in different containers.

My question has to do with the build process. I understand that I can have generated pages cached during build. However, currently my Redis instance is private inside our cloud and I'd prefer that it stay that way. The problem is that, as a result, we pay the page build penalty twice: first during build (non user-facing), and then during the first page load (user facing). I'd prefer to just pay the first penalty.

However, our NextJS containers ship with all the built pages in the server/pages directory. Is there a way to load these values to prepopulate the cache when the server starts? The file timestamps could be used to set an insert time, assuming that's possible with Redis. That would support building into the cache in a way that didn't require exposing the Redis instance used to cache values.

[gchallen]

So it looks like the ability to do this was remove just prior to 1.0.0, which is when the useFileSystem option was removed. It would seem possible to factor this out into a separate handler, and perhaps that's the right approach. But I guess I'm curious about why this option was removed, since it results in an initial load delay for ISR pages generated during the build process.