Vercel: deploy and ship fast

What you will be able to do

Skills you add to your Herizon profile when you finish: Vercel, Web Deployment.

• A web app of your own, deployed from GitHub to a live link
• Secrets kept out of your code and set per environment
• A preview link for every change before it goes live
• Your own domain with HTTPS, if you own one
• A calm routine for a failed build or a bad release

Who it is for

Time per page: 15 to 30 minutes Whole course: 4 to 5 hours (11 pages, at your own speed) This is for you if you are: - A developer or student with an app that only runs on your laptop - A founder or freelancer who needs a client site live this week - Changing career and building a project to show You need a GitHub account and a small web app. Basic Git (commit, push, branch) helps. A domain you own is optional. ---

The situation you work through

Venla, a freelance developer in Tampere, deploys one booking site for her cousin's bike repair shop from GitHub to Vercel: a first deploy, three environment variables, a preview, a custom domain and one failed build that she fixes from the log.

Your practice task

Deploy one small app of your own from GitHub to Vercel. Add an environment variable, change the app on a branch and check its preview link, then break a build on purpose and fix it from the build log. Submit the live link, the names (never the values) of your environment variables, and three sentences on what the failed build said, how you fixed it and your next step.

What is inside

1. What is Vercel and why use it
2. Creating an account and connecting GitHub
3. Deploying your first project
4. Environment variables and project settings
5. Custom domains and DNS setup
6. Preview deployments and branching workflow

and 5 more pages

Finish with a short quiz to earn your certificate.