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Can I skip build-time pre-rendering but still use ISR (to avoid ISR writes on every deploy)?

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German Shorthaired Pointer posted this in #help-forum
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I have ~400 ISR pages. Every time I deploy, it looks like Next.js regenerates them and triggers ISR writes again. Since I may deploy multiple times per day, I’m hitting ISR write limits.

Is there a way to:
- Avoid pre-rendering pages during next build
- Only generate them on first request (after deploy)
- Still cache them with ISR (revalidate)
- Prevent all pages from being regenerated on every deployment

Basically: can I omit build-time page generation but still keep ISR behavior so builds don’t cause mass rewrites?

I use cache components btw

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