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Vercel Deployment and Environment Guide

Prepare the package lock, runtime, environment variables, Prisma migrations, build command, preview checks and production release on Vercel.

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Who this guide is for

Developers, DevOps engineers and platform administrators

Expected outcomes

Use a deterministic npm install
Prevent package and icon conflicts
Deploy migrations safely
Verify the preview before production

Step-by-step workflow

1

Lock the runtime

Use the committed package-lock.json, packageManager field, supported Node version and exact core dependency versions.

2

Configure environment

Set database, authentication, storage, email, payment, analytics and application URL variables in Vercel.

3

Prepare the database

Back up production, review additive migrations, run prisma migrate deploy and never run demo seeds automatically.

4

Build and verify

Run npm ci, dependency checks, Lucide import checks, Prisma generate, typecheck, build and preview smoke tests.