Create a Next.js app with Vercel

a dev guide by Divjoy

About this guide

This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality Next.js app integrated with Vercel. Check out the tasks below to get started. To save time, you can also use our boilerplate, which gives you a complete React codebase with all of these tasks done for you. Okay, let's dive in!

Tasks

Setup your Next.js app
Create a Next.js app using npx create-next-app and then run your project locally with the npm run dev command.
Deploy to Vercel
To deploy your Next.js app to Vercel first link it to a project with the vercel link command. Next you'll want to make sure any to add any environment vars used in your app to Vercel using vercel env add or via the environment vars UI. You can then use the vercel command to deploy your project to a unique preview URL or vercel --prod to deploy to your production domain.

Get the code

You can get the code for this guide with our Next.js and Vercel Boilerplate. You'll get a complete Next.js codebase with Vercel integration, all the tasks listed above done for you, and a responsive multi-page template. It should save you about two weeks of development time.

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