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Storage Question

Hey everyone, looking for advice from people who have dealt with this before.

I’m building a custom internal CRM and business system with Next.js, Prisma, SQLite, TypeScript, Tailwind, VS Code, Cursor, and Claude Code. The issue is that my MacBook’s internal storage is completely maxed out, and it’s now breaking my development workflow. The app code itself isn’t massive, but the dev environment constantly creates huge folders and caches like `node_modules`, Next.js `.next` build cache, local SQLite and Prisma files, screenshots, Loom recordings, Claude and Cursor caches, browser caches, and more. Once the disk gets full, git, npm and pnpm installs, Next.js, Prisma, and Claude Code all start failing because they can’t write files.

We’re considering moving the live app to Vercel and the database to Supabase, but I’m trying to understand whether that actually solves the development storage problem or only solves the hosting and production side. I still need a reliable setup for coding every day without my local machine filling up.

Has anyone here solved this kind of issue? Would you recommend an external SSD, a remote development server, GitHub Codespaces, Cursor Remote SSH, Vercel and Supabase, or some other setup? I’m looking for something reliable, simple enough for a small team, and not crazy expensive.

Appreciate any real world advice from anyone who has built a custom system like this.

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