Working with Vercel

What is Vercel?

Vercel calls themselves a platform for front-end frameworks and static sites that is built to integrate with headless content, commerce, or databases. Vercel makes deployment very fast and easy and takes care of scaling. So instead of trying to work out GitHub pages, Vercel will configure and deploy the application and do it very quickly making it such a powerful tool.

Creating an Account and Linking it with GitHub

First thing you want to do to start working with Vercel is to create an account and link it to your GitHub account. To do this go to and click continue with GitHub. From there sign on to GitHub and you have completed the first step.

Deploying a Project

While signed on and looking at your Dashboard, click the New Project button. This will take you to page that will let you import a GitHub repo and should look like this (except with your GitHub repos not mine).

Select the repo that you want to deploy and depending on the project, you may have to change some of the default configurations. Once the configurations are set, click on deploy and Vercel will build, run checks, and assign domains. After some time, if successful you will see a screen like this

11ty Blog Post Deployed with Vercel

This is a successful deployment of my 11ty lab in Vercel