illlyas / vercel-express

Vercel Express and UI Webapp Example. Live Demo - https://vercel-express-ngduc.vercel.app/

Vercel-Express

Vercel Express and UI fullstack webapp example.

Live Demo - https://vercel-express-ngduc.vercel.app

Set up & Deploy with Vercel

Star and clone this repo, update package.json with your information (project name, your name, etc.), verify vercel.json.

$ npm install
$ cd ./backend && npm install && npm run build
$ cd ..
$ npm install vercel -g
$ vercel

• Vercel will generate a ".vercel" directory, don't share or commit this one!
• After deploying, open your URL like this: YOUR-VERCEL-APP-ID.vercel.app
• Build your backend and ui, the outputs are located at "backend/build" and "ui/buid".
  • Some boilerplate generators output the built files to "dist" instead of "build", so update your vercel.json accordingly.

Code

Backend

• See backend/README.md

Frontend

• See ui/README.md

vercel.json

• Map API routes (/api/...) and static (UI) routes (/...).
• Environment variables - examples:
  • $ vercel secrets add my-mongodb-uri mongodb+srv://<user>:<password>@clusteridxxx.mongodb.net/<database-name>?retryWrites=true
  • add "env" to vercel.json { "env": { "MONGODB_URI": "@my-mongodb-uri" }, ... }

Links

• Article https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/create-and-deploy-a-node-js-express-app-for-free-f75d8796ba70
• Article https://vercel.com/guides/using-express-with-vercel
• Node Express Mongoose boilerplate https://github.com/ngduc/node-rem