Vercel Action

This action was formerly Zeit Now Deployment. Migration Guide

Introduction to Vercel

​Vercel is a cloud platform for static sites and Serverless Functions that fits perfectly with your workflow. It enables developers to host Jamstack websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and requires no supervision, all with no configuration.

This action make a Vercel deployment with github actions.

• Deploy to Vercel.
• Comment on pull request.
• Comment on commit.
• Password Protect ( Basic Auth )
• Create Deployment on github.

Result

pull request example

commit

Inputs

Name	Required	Default	Description
vercel-token	[x]		Vercel token.
github-comment	[ ]	true	if you don't want to comment on pull request.
github-token	[ ]		if you want to comment on pull request.
vercel-args	[ ]		This is optional args for vercel cli. Example: --prod
working-directory	[ ]		the working directory
vercel-project-id	[x]		❗Vercel CLI 17+,The name property in vercel.json is deprecated (https://zeit.ink/5F)
vercel-org-id	[x]		❗Vercel CLI 17+,The name property in vercel.json is deprecated (https://zeit.ink/5F)

Outputs

preview-url

The url of deployment preview.

preview-name

The name of deployment name.

Example Usage

Disable Vercel for GitHub

The Vercel for GitHub integration automatically deploys your GitHub projects with Vercel, providing Preview Deployment URLs, and automatic Custom Domain updates. link

We would like to to use github actions for build and deploy instead of Vercel.

Set github.enabled: false in vercel.json

{
  "version": 2,
  "public": false,
  "github": {
    "enabled": false
  },
  "builds": [
    { "src": "./public/**", "use": "@now/static" }
  ],
  "routes": [
    { "src": "/(.*)", "dest": "public/$1" }
  ]
}

When set to false, Vercel for GitHub will not deploy the given project regardless of the GitHub app being installed.

vercel.json Example:

{
  "version": 2,
  "scope": "amond",
  "public": false,
  "github": {
    "enabled": false
  },
  "builds": [
    { "src": "./public/**", "use": "@now/static" }
  ],
  "routes": [
    { "src": "/(.*)", "dest": "public/$1" }
  ]
}

Project Linking

You should link a project via Vercel CLI in locally.

When running vercel in a directory for the first time, Vercel CLI needs to know which scope and Project you want to deploy your directory to. You can choose to either link an existing project or to create a new one.

NOTE: Project linking requires at least version 17 of Vercel CLI. If you have an earlier version, please update to the latest version.

vercel

? Set up and deploy “~/web/my-lovely-project”? [Y/n] y
? Which scope do you want to deploy to? My Awesome Team
? Link to existing project? [y/N] y
? What’s the name of your existing project? my-lovely-project
🔗 Linked to awesome-team/my-lovely-project (created .vercel and added it to .gitignore)

Once set up, a new .vercel directory will be added to your directory. The .vercel directory contains both the organization(vercel-org-id) and project(vercel-project-id) id of your project.

{"orgId":"example_org_id","projectId":"example_project_id"}

You can save both values in the secrets setting in your repository. Read the Official documentation if you want further info on how secrets work on Github.

Github Actions

• This is a complete .github/workflow/deploy.yml example.

Set the vercel-project-id and vercel-org-id you found above.

name: deploy website
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: amondnet/vercel-action@v19
        with:
          vercel-token: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_TOKEN }} # Required
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} #Optional 
          vercel-args: '--prod' #Optional
          vercel-org-id: ${{ secrets.ORG_ID}}  #Required
          vercel-project-id: ${{ secrets.PROJECT_ID}} #Required 
          working-directory: ./sub-directory

Angular Example

See .github/workflow/example-angular.yml ,

Basic Auth Example

How to add Basic Authentication to a Vercel deployment

See .github/workflow/examole-express-basic-auth.yml

source code

Migration from v2

1. Change action name in workflows from now-deployment to vercel-action

    - name: Vercel Action
      uses: amondnet/vercel-action@v19.0.1

2. Change input values.
   • zeit-token -> vercel-token
   • now-org-id -> vercel-org-id
   • now-project-id -> vercel-project-id