Hello Artisans,
In this blog post, we will see how to deploy the laravel application on Vercel. It is a popular serverless platform.
Step 1: First, we create a new laravel application.
composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-vercel-project
Step 2: Create api folder, within that folder create index.php file, and add the code below.
<?php
require __DIR__ . "/../public/index.php";
It is an entry point that will forward the control to public/index.php file which normally gets called when we visit our laravel application.
Step 3: Create .vercelignore file and add the below line in it.
/vendor
Step 4: Now create vercel.json file and add the below code
{
"version": 2,
"framework": null,
"functions": {
"api/index.php": { "runtime": "vercel-php@0.6.0" }
},
"routes": [
{
"src": "/(.*)",
"dest": "/api/index.php"
}
],
"env": {
"APP_ENV": "production",
"APP_DEBUG": "true",
"APP_URL": "https://your.url.from.vercel.app",
"APP_KEY": add API key here from your .env file",
"APP_CONFIG_CACHE": "/tmp/config.php",
"APP_EVENTS_CACHE": "/tmp/events.php",
"APP_PACKAGES_CACHE": "/tmp/packages.php",
"APP_ROUTES_CACHE": "/tmp/routes.php",
"APP_SERVICES_CACHE": "/tmp/services.php",
"VIEW_COMPILED_PATH": "/tmp",
"CACHE_DRIVER": "array",
"LOG_CHANNEL": "stderr",
"SESSION_DRIVER": "cookie"
}
}
- In the above code
routesarray will forward all incoming URIs to our newly set serverless function which we created inStep 2.
"routes": [{
"src": "/(.*)",
"dest": "/api/index.php"
}],
-
envwill be our Vercel's env file.
Step 4: The last step is to create dist folder in the project directory.
- Now save all the files and push your repository to GitHub. Now login to your Vercel application.
- On the right side click
Add Newthen selectProjectoption. After that import your laravel application from GitHub.
- Now we will configure our project by giving a name to the project.
- Then select the
otheroption fromFramework Preset.
- The next step is to add the required env.
If your deployment has failed go to the home page select the project then go to settings
In the General section go to
Node.js versionsection and select the node version as18x, save the changes, and trigger to re-deploy the application.Tada!! Your application is live now.
Happy Reading
🦄 ❤️
Top comments (3)
"The next step is to add the required env."
what is the require env? does i need to pul all .env in my laravel project😭
Hello @rhagilsetiawan,
The required env variables are the ones you need to connect your third-party applications or for the API calls you plan to make. You don't need to pull the entire .env file. Please ensure that the necessary environment variables, such as API keys, client IDs, secrets, and URLs, are properly set up in your .env for the specific service you are integrating, if you have a database, then you need to add all required DB connection details from your
.env.No, only the variables related to the database or keys that are necessary. In my case, only the database variables (online, in this case) were necessary.