Is it possible to deploy a NodeJs app in Vercel?

Question

I\'m trying to deploy an API (made in Node) at Vercel (https://vercel.com, before Now) from the CLI. But when I deploy the app, I open the site and the result is just the files

Answer 1

You should look at https://github.com/Chuloo/now-express repository for their serverless boilerplate code

Answer 2

Run yarn global add now@latest to install the CLI

1. Create a now.json file and paste this

{
  "version": 2,
  "builds": [{
    "src": "./server.js",
    "use": "@now/node-server"
  }],
  "routes": [{"handle": "filesystem"},
    {
      "src": "/.*",
      "dest": "server.js"
    }
  ]
}

Note: Change "src": "server.js", && "dest":"server.js" to your server entry file.

2. Add it to .gitignore

3. Then run now in the CLI to deploy.

If you are deploying to production use now --prod command in the CLI to deploy

Here is an example server that I deployed: https://vercel-example-server.now.sh.

Answer 3

For the time being, with Vercel it's not possible to have a server-run web app that relies on Node.

Vercel is a cloud platform for static frontends and serverless functions.

In order to deploy a node api with Vercel you would need to use their serverless functions.