Deploying to Vercel

tilelast year

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  notchrlast year

  @tile I do not have experience with vercel, I'm sure a bunch of folks do, but I did find this example Repo that may be relevant

  https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload
  

  
  

  Which was linked from

  https://nextjs-vercel.payloadcms.com/
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  tilelast year

  Never worked with next but I don't think this is a solution as I'm just trying to get the default create-payload-app running, I already have a separate sveltekit project on vercel for my frontend

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  notchrlast year

  Ah right, I don't know next either, however that example was deployed to vercel by the payload team

  
  

  
  

  So it may have some vercel-related infromation?

  
  

  
  

  My guess is, to handle both build directories, youll need to configure vercel a little

  https://vercel.com/docs/build-output-api/v3/configuration
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  tilelast year

  Yes I also think I'll just have to change something in the Vercel config not on the Payload side. Unfortunately the repo doesn't seem to include a vercel config file. I'd ask this in a Vercel group but since this issue should come up every time someone trys to deploy payload to vercel I thought someone here might have already run into it

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  notchrlast year

  Hmm check out

  https://discord.com/channels/967097582721572934/1088447315385270322
  

  
  

  You can also surch 'vercel deploy' in the top right to see all discussion related to that

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  tilelast year

  I couldn't find a solution and I've moved to Railway now

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  tylandavis

  last year

  hey @tile, if you are using the default

  create-payload-app

  , it won't be able to be deployed on Vercel's platform. Payload runs on Express, and since Vercel is a serverless platform, there are some less-than-ideal workarounds needed to run an Express app on Vercel.

  
  
  

  More on that here:

  https://vercel.com/guides/using-express-with-vercel
  
  

  I see you are using sveltekit for your frontend, but if you wanted to use Next, you can use the

  next-payload

  package to deploy Payload severlessly within a NextJS application, which is deployable on Vercel.

  
  

  
  

  https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload