Is it possible to deploy a NodeJs app in Vercel?

Question

I'm trying to deploy an API (made in Node) at Vercel (https://vercel.com, before Now) from the CLI. But when I deploy the app, I open the site and the result is just the files in the path directory, and not the app running. This is my server.js

    {   "name": "subtitles-api",   "version": "1.0.0",   "description": "",   "main": "index.js",   "scripts": {     "start": "node server.js",     "pre-deploy": "node deleteLastDeploy.js",     "deploy": "npm run pre-deploy && now --public && now alias",     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"   }   "engines": {     "node": ">=6.9"   },   "keywords": [],   "author": "",   "license": "MIT",   "dependencies": {     //list of dependencies   } } 

To see the full API: https://github.com/bitflix-official/subtitles-api

Answer 1

Run yarn global add now@latest to install the CLI

1. Create a now.json file and paste this

{   "version": 2,   "builds": [{     "src": "./server.js",     "use": "@now/node-server"   }],   "routes": [{"handle": "filesystem"},     {       "src": "/.*",       "dest": "server.js"     }   ] }  

Note: Change "src": "server.js", && "dest":"server.js" to your server entry file.

2. Add it to .gitignore

3. Then run now in the CLI to deploy.

If you are deploying to production use now --prod command in the CLI to deploy

Here is an example server that I deployed: https://vercel-example-server.now.sh.

Answer 2

For the time being, with Vercel it's not possible to have a server-run web app that relies on Node.

Vercel is a cloud platform for static frontends and serverless functions.

In order to deploy a node api with Vercel you would need to use their serverless functions.