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+### Building and Running Webapps
+
+It is possible to build and run Next.js webapps using the `build-webapp` and `run-webapp` subcommands.
+
+To make it easier to build once and deploy into different environments and with different configuration,
+compilation and static page generation are separated in the `build-webapp` and `run-webapp` steps.
+
+This offers much more flexibilty than standard Next.js build methods, since any environment variables accessed
+via `process.env`, whether for pages or for API, will have values drawn from their runtime deployment environment,
+not their build environment. 
+
+## Building
+
+Building usually requires no additional configuration.  By default, the Next.js version specified in `package.json`
+is used, and either `yarn` or `npm` will be used automatically depending on which lock files are present.  These
+can be overidden with the build arguments `CERC_NEXT_VERSION` and `CERC_BUILD_TOOL` respectively.  For example: `--extra-build-args "--build-arg CERC_NEXT_VERSION=13.4.12"`
+
+**Example**:
+```
+$ cd ~/cerc
+$ git clone git@git.vdb.to:cerc-io/test-progressive-web-app.git
+$ laconic-so build-webapp --source-repo ~/cerc/test-progressive-web-app
+...
+
+Built host container for ~/cerc/test-progressive-web-app with tag:
+
+    cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local
+
+To test locally run:
+
+    laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file /path/to/environment.env
+
+```
+
+## Running
+
+With `run-webapp` a new container will be launched with runtime configuration provided by `--env-file` (if specified) and published on an available port.  Multiple instances can be launched with different configuration.
+
+**Example**:
+```
+# Production env
+$ laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file /path/to/environment/staging.env
+
+Image: cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local
+ID: 4c6e893bf436b3e91a2b92ce37e30e499685131705700bd92a90d2eb14eefd05
+URL: http://localhost:32768
+
+# Dev env
+$ laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file /path/to/environment/dev.env
+
+Image: cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local
+ID: 9ab96494f563aafb6c057d88df58f9eca81b90f8721a4e068493a289a976051c
+URL: http://localhost:32769
+```