perryts.com

Landing site for Perry — a TypeScript-to-native compiler built on Rust, SWC, and Cranelift.

Stack

• Next.js 16 with static export (next build → out/)
• Tailwind CSS v4 for styling
• Perry-compiled server for production hosting

How it's served

This site used to deploy on Vercel, but we kept hitting routing issues — sub-routes like /blog/building-pry would 404 on page reload because Vercel's static hosting couldn't resolve clean URLs properly despite various vercel.json rewrites.

So we dogfooded Perry instead.

server.ts is a ~90-line static file server written in TypeScript using Perry's native HTTP server API (FFI bindings to a Rust/hyper HTTP server). It handles:

• Static file serving from the out/ directory
• Clean URL resolution (/blog → out/blog/index.html)
• Correct MIME types for all asset types
• 404 fallback page
• URL percent-decoding for Next.js data file paths

The server compiles to a 2 MB native binary in under a second:

$ perry compile server.ts -o server

In production, nginx handles TLS termination and serves the static files directly (Perry can't cross-compile to Linux yet, so the binary runs on macOS for local dev). The full build pipeline:

npm run build:site    # next build → out/
npm run build:server  # perry compile server.ts → ./server
npm run serve         # runs the compiled binary

Development

npm install
npm run dev           # next dev on localhost:3000

Production build

npm run build         # builds site + compiles server
npm run serve         # starts Perry binary on port 3000

Deployment

Static files are deployed to the server via rsync and served by nginx:

npm run build:site
rsync -avz --delete out/ root@webserver.skelpo.net:/var/www/perryts.com/out/