Deploy an Express API to Vercel

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Жыл бұрын

I get asked how to do this a lot so I thought I'd make a video about it.
Serverless functions on vercel are typically stand alone request handlers, but it is possible to deploy an entire Express API as a single serverless function. In this video I show how to do that.
Using Express.js with Vercel: vercel.com/guides/using-expre...
Vercel Limits: vercel.com/docs/concepts/limi...
Express API Starter TS: github.com/w3cj/express-api-s...
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@weperfectit Жыл бұрын

Legend. Good to see a top adn direct approach to helping others get their thinking straight about api deployment. Great advice and great presentation. 5 Stars! Thanks!

@_ianjms 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!! I've been looking for a specific guide like this for hours. You got my sub!

@adarshchhokar3818 Жыл бұрын

PLEASE make more content like this CJ. Youre such a good instructor it would be a waste not to use this gift

@AlexGomes99 11 ай бұрын

I loved this video, you saved me a lot of time figuring about deploying a serverless api on Vercel

@rodrigosousa4102 6 ай бұрын

I really liked it, you were straight to the point, no nonsense, very explanatory, it helped a lot

@LeighBriody 10 ай бұрын

Really useful video , quick and straight to the point thank you !

@MyCodingDiarie Жыл бұрын

Your enthusiasm for programming is contagious🌼😍✌. Thank you for sharing your passion with us!

@TJKlimoski 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for. Appreciate the help!

@wadigzonDiazwong 3 ай бұрын

worked like charm! thanks for posting this!

@hizkiajuan 11 ай бұрын

Works like a charm! Thanks, dude.

@thribsilva Ай бұрын

Thank you. With this video I was able to increase the maxDuration of my api routes

@zdaniel16 5 ай бұрын

God bless you! After days of Googling and trial and error, your solution worked like a charm! Thank you!

@erickunzel7604 8 ай бұрын

Great video! Really useful and straight to the point. Love the mustache!

@gerardsiles Жыл бұрын

HI! how would you connect to mongo db database from the main file instead of from each model? Before this change, I was connecting from the index on src, having one single connection, but now I had to move that to each model since if I try to connect from the index file it never connects thanks!

@SmartShopperPay 3 ай бұрын

Have no words! HIGHT QUALITY content as always!

@noncausaltalks Ай бұрын

thankyou so much, after spending 6 hours i finally got right solution 💖💖

@dixittilaji6147 10 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for this, this problem was really bugging me but after watching this i was able to host a server by myself.

@dixittilaji6147 10 ай бұрын

btw nice moustache :)

@holypowerenjoyer6059 Жыл бұрын

Cool mustache, warrio

@DiamondBroPlayz 5 ай бұрын

LOL

@user-bi5mr8cg3d 5 ай бұрын

I'ma check it now... Thanks a lot!

@danielcamilomontoyasanchez4122 6 ай бұрын

Me sacaste de una así rápidamente jaja gracias, un suscriptor más.

@lucasborges1303 7 ай бұрын

Hey man! thank you a lot for the video. Success!

@afridiahmed_ 10 ай бұрын

thank you for helping me out

@ivancortes2580 10 ай бұрын

I think you forgot the most important thing, the API should be consumed by a client. I'd love to see the cors setup since Vercel has a specific setup. The API is only for devs so any person without dev skills won't ever use that!

@rog0079 6 ай бұрын

Great video, also, how to set env variables for our express api if we have any?

11 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial!

@aryankalra5640 18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much man!

@harshbhagat9394 10 ай бұрын

Love it, thanks it worked!!!

@prajwald36 2 ай бұрын

Can't thank you enough, love you bro 🙏

@leonardodevelopper108 7 ай бұрын

@CodingGarden, hey... I followed the tuturial step by step and I got make deploy on vercel thanks for that! then I have a problem with deploy. my api has integration with database through Sequelize.js when I make deploy the server provides an error "I've install manualy node.js module in ConnectionManager._loadDialectModule" this only happaned when I try require sequelize module on my project if I don't call the module does not provides error.

@rohitsaini7427 8 ай бұрын

Thankyou! great help.

@yousafsabir7 Жыл бұрын

finally I'm successful to deploy api on vercel, finally

@shayantriedcoding Жыл бұрын

Which theme are you using in vs code

@eric-jt 2 ай бұрын

Hey thanks! iv been trying to get this to work. LoL All i needed to add was the public directory, without it the url would just download something

@random2059 11 ай бұрын

can I make you of api in frontend work with. {method : "GET"} and fetch(url, options) or it is not possible because it's a server less api

@yusufansari7618 10 ай бұрын

It works for me Thanks I wasted 3-4 hours just to get it done after watching this it took me 10 minutes only🎉🎉 though the swagger ui is not working in prod😢

@emanueldiazvilla9538 2 ай бұрын

Amigo, eres genial. Gracias!

@user-rr4er8nl3y 2 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!

@NazDevZone 11 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot man.. God bless you.

@nmiz1987 11 ай бұрын

Thank You!

@josemonge4604 Жыл бұрын

Very useful. Thanks! If it's just for a hobby project, there are no costs right?

@CodingGarden Жыл бұрын

Yeah the hobby tier is pretty generous. vercel.com/pricing

@ryan_roga Жыл бұрын

If I want to use websockets and/or long lived events, what would you say is the best, most vercel-like platform to deploy to??

@CodingGarden Жыл бұрын

Any service that allows you to deploy long lived containers would work. fly.io render.com and railway.app seem to have the most vercel like experience. I have several AWS Lightsail instances that I use for my websocket services. Any VPS would work.

@clementadjei4396 5 ай бұрын

what do you mean by long-lived API ?

@Sillymonkeies Жыл бұрын

Thank you! God bless

@dogukanvaris7224 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, my secret teacher.

@boobaii 8 ай бұрын

not working, when visiting api, it just starts to download file, where i default exported my app

@liliasotollamas4192 28 күн бұрын

how would it work with an sql database?

@chrisbelga2235 10 ай бұрын

Lifesaver!

@Roamer_sea_manila 4 ай бұрын

Thank you

@49THEWAY Ай бұрын

thank you very much brother, finally i finish my 3 day errors

@loek8638 Жыл бұрын

if you are using plain js use module syntax, otherwise you'll get an importing error and the api won't work

@willsterjohnson 11 ай бұрын

Isn't this an anti-pattern (lamba monolith)? Our entire application is running in a single serverless function, meaning everything which is imported is imported, parsed, and interpreted on every request. Unless Vercel does some magic behind the scenes?

@CodingGarden 11 ай бұрын

Serverless functions have a "cold start" for the first request but are then "warm" for subsequent requests, and stay running for a certain amount of time. So yes the cold start time is potentially slower for an entire express app vs a single request handler. vercel.com/guides/how-can-i-improve-serverless-function-lambda-cold-start-performance-on-vercel

@adamastooor Ай бұрын

THX!!

@anushasurakala5975 3 ай бұрын

thank you

@nykoos 10 ай бұрын

Thx!

@MuhamadAzizPrasetyo 6 ай бұрын

Thank u 🎉

@lakshman587 Жыл бұрын

Thumbnail 🔥

@carlosalbertotabordaramire1825 Күн бұрын

Muchas gracias por este video

@UmashankarBehera-hf4uq 14 күн бұрын

You are awesome dude Love from india

@yazanunis8210 11 ай бұрын

Thanks bro

@abhiram6087 Жыл бұрын

Hey man I need you help I have followed you exact process but I don't know what's happening but when I am sending request to localhost:300/myroutes(which is generated when using vercel dev command) I am getting an EADDRINUSE: address already in use :::8144 but I am not using that port anywhere please guide me on how to solve this error this is very important By the way I am using js app not ts app

@Gabriel-zr4kz Жыл бұрын

I was having the same issue, I've changed to 5005 and then it worked. In my case I have another app deployed to Vercel. But now my deploy never build. It's stuck on a console.log(Listening on port bla bla);

@F4bianek Жыл бұрын

Super amigo

@PFOctavio 8 ай бұрын

i love you thank you so much

@hugolillo8760 11 ай бұрын

thats is the best!!!!

@Kira-vf7xr 11 ай бұрын

konten mu sekeren kumis mu brou, keren. Semoga sukses

@kennardsugirotok7374 2 ай бұрын

I got error 500 after teh site is launched. it says This Serverless Function has crashed. FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILED

@gorkemeldeniz9579 Жыл бұрын

So where suppose to be deploy our express apis

@CodingGarden Жыл бұрын

fly.io render.com and railway.app are a few other options.

@WinterSistaCh.STALIVE Жыл бұрын

@@CodingGarden Are there free options for these?

@himanshutoppo4522 Жыл бұрын

anyone know the theme he's using in vscode ??

@CodingGarden Жыл бұрын

Right now I'm using a theme called Just Black. You can see all my settings and extensions here: github.com/CodingGarden/vscode-settings

@soumyachakraborty2004 Ай бұрын

can i deploy ejs??? there?

@samjacker 20 күн бұрын

of course

@mahd1_ar Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

@HanzlaSadaqat 5 ай бұрын

ledgend.

@SassyPantsy Жыл бұрын

I love you.

@JasonJBrunet 5 ай бұрын

So what is the "right" place to deploy a very simple node api for free or at least very cheap? Please don't say heroku please don't say heroku

@travelingtramp 10 ай бұрын

slipped a step??????? vercel --prod produces command not found.

@CodingGarden 10 ай бұрын

You will need to install the vercel CLI vercel.com/docs/cli

@aytcunal Жыл бұрын

👋

@vladplaz 11 ай бұрын

Not working

@CodingGarden 11 ай бұрын

What errors do you get?

@vladplaz 11 ай бұрын

@@CodingGarden 404

@thegrtnx 5 ай бұрын

absolute import seems not to work.

@julienthomas363 2 ай бұрын

I have this error : 500: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILED ID: cdg1::g8rkj-1713944590231-7fa0f4d5e3b1 Here is the log GET/api Unhandled Rejection: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'apply') at /var/task/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:646:15 at next (/var/task/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:265:14) Any idea why?

@richard_shaju Ай бұрын

same to me

@DigitalAlchemyst 11 ай бұрын

This is more useful than you think, however something is wrong and i cannot get this to work. I am stuck with the following error, even using your own emoji server as a test still get the error 404: NOT_FOUND Code: NOT_FOUND ID: cle1::k8v6g-1690571893453-05d38d6a7e4f Read our documentation to learn more about this error. the ID changes with each visit seems unique

@CodingGarden 11 ай бұрын

If I had to guess, might be the rewrites in the vercel.json file. Double check your syntax there.

@DigitalAlchemyst 11 ай бұрын

@CodingGarden thanks I'll take a look . Either way my server is a lot better in the sense I matched your setup and now it all is split up whereas I had EVERYTHING in the index file no app file no api folder it was meant to be a simple show data backend api point I added in some crud operations so the file was getting quite long but now I have more of a product I can use for multiple front end projects. Once I do hammer out this last bit I will have a solid end point to use for all front only projects in my portfolio which I feel should nicely round out a front end dev portfolio. So that's a huge use case for those wondering.

@seanmoran8044 10 ай бұрын

@@DigitalAlchemyst Did you figure this out? I'm getting the same issue.

@DigitalAlchemyst 10 ай бұрын

@@seanmoran8044 not yet