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Comprehensive guide for creating, managing, and automating preview deployments on Vercel. Learn how to utilize both the CLI and REST API to deploy unique, temporary environments for specific branches or pull requests. This is essential for pre-production testing, integrating into CI/CD pipelines, and sharing stable preview URLs with stakeholders before merging to main.

Guides deploying Next.js apps to Vercel covering environment variable strategy, choosing edge vs serverless runtimes, build optimizations, preview workflows, and custom domain setup to secure production releases.

A comprehensive guide to building and deploying Vercel Edge Functions. These functions run on Vercel's global Edge Network (V8 isolates), providing ultra-low latency and zero cold starts. Learn how to use Web Standard APIs for critical tasks such as authentication, geolocation routing, A/B testing, and high-performance API middleware, drastically improving application speed and user experience.

Configure Vercel's advanced role-based access control (RBAC) for enterprise environments. This guide covers setting up granular team roles, managing project-level access groups, integrating SAML SSO for secure authentication, and enabling detailed audit logging. Use this when implementing strict security protocols and enforcing the principle of least privilege across your team's deployments and resources.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough for deploying a minimal, functional full-stack application to Vercel. It covers setting up both static HTML landing pages and robust serverless API routes using TypeScript. This skill is ideal for beginners starting new Vercel projects, testing deployment pipelines, or learning the core patterns of modern serverless function implementation.

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide for responding to Vercel-related production outages, deployment failures, and platform issues. This runbook covers rapid triage using CLI commands, executing instant rollbacks, investigating root causes (log analysis, diffing), managing communication templates, and conducting thorough postmortem reviews.

This skill guides developers through installing the Vercel Command Line Interface (CLI) and configuring secure authentication. It covers multiple setup scenarios, including interactive OAuth login, setting environment tokens for CI/CD pipelines, and linking a local project directory to a specific Vercel project. Essential for initial project setup and ensuring smooth deployments.

This comprehensive guide catalogs common anti-patterns and mistakes when deploying applications on Vercel. It covers critical architectural areas such as secret management (preventing key exposure), optimizing serverless function performance (cold start, timeouts), adhering to Edge Runtime standards, and resolving configuration errors. Use this skill for code reviews, security audits, and onboarding new developers to ensure best deployment practices.

This guide provides comprehensive methods for load testing and capacity planning of Vercel serverless deployments. Learn how to use professional tools like k6 and autocannon to simulate realistic traffic spikes, measure latency (P95, P99), analyze cold start impact, and tune concurrency settings (Fluid Compute) to ensure optimal application performance and scalability under heavy load.

This guide details how to set up a full local development loop for applications deployed to Vercel. It covers using `vercel dev` to emulate serverless functions, managing environment variables, and implementing hot reloading. It provides step-by-step instructions for local testing of API routes and frontends, ensuring a fast and accurate iteration cycle before production deployment.

This comprehensive guide details the process of migrating applications to Vercel from various platforms, including Netlify, AWS, and Cloudflare. It covers critical steps such as configuration mapping (e.g., netlify.toml to vercel.json), migrating serverless functions, setting up environment variables, implementing DNS cutovers, and validating feature parity using advanced techniques like the Strangler Fig pattern, ensuring a smooth and reliable transition.

A comprehensive guide to configuring Vercel across Development, Preview, and Production environments. Learn how to scope environment variables, manage secrets, and automate multi-stage deployments using both the Vercel CLI and REST API. Covers setting up custom environments (e.g., Staging) and implementing environment detection in code for reliable application behavior.