passing the "directory of code location" where the code lives in Vercel CLI

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Yellow-horned horntail posted this in #help-forum

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:13:45.000Z

### Problem Description

It would be really great if we could pass in the "directory of code location" where the code lives as an option

Very naive eg :
vercel --code-location ./packages/nexts

Reason :
We have a starter kit/template which is monorepo having below directory stucture :

root/
â”œâ”€â”€ packages/
â”‚   â””â”€â”€ nextjs
|   |   â”œâ”€- vercel.json
|   â””â”€â”€ hardhat
â”œâ”€â”€ package.json

i.e we have two packages nextjs and hardhat we have vercel installed at the root of the project as mentioned in FAQ's of https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/monorepos

Now when you do yarn vercel at the root its asks you :
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/80153681/233417569-2a84957d-3d32-41c5-bbaf-9a20157f2696.jpg

It would really be great we could preconfigure it use pacakges/nextjs as the source where the code lives and users don't need specify the path themselves

Am I missing something ? Is this already built in verlce cli ? Is there a way to preconfigure it throught vercel.json ? If not I think this feature should be there built in vercel cli ðŸ˜…

checkout this comment -> https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-2/pull/231#issuecomment-1471632149 for more context

Tysm ðŸ™ŒðŸ™

Answered by Yellow-horned horntail

https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-2/pull/544

check out this, its kind of work around were we buid locally the build first and then push it vercel

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33 Replies

riský

2023-09-25T18:15:15.000Z

can't you just cd into the package folder and run vercel there?

actually, if you set up the vercel project on the web, you choose which folder it starts from

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:16:37.000Z

Yeah currently we have the workaround but the problem is that since its a monorepo the "yarn.lock" lives in the root which is not uploaded vercel

riský

2023-09-25T18:16:37.000Z

have you checked the box at the bottom?

@riský Click to see attachment

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:17:16.000Z

Yeah but we are a starter kit and want our users to use the CLI which does it all

@riský Click to see attachment

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:18:20.000Z

This seems very manual process :(, I wish there was an option to mention this directly while typing CLI command instead of going to UI and adding it ther e

@Yellow-horned horntail This seems very manual process :(, I wish there was an option to mention this directly while typing CLI command instead of going to UI and adding it ther e

riský

2023-09-25T18:20:27.000Z

all i could find: https://vercel.com/docs/monorepos#using-monorepos-with-vercel-cli (not helpful tho)

and a but under makes it sound like a web thing ðŸ˜

To access source files outside the Root Directory (which enables Yarn & Lerna Workspaces), enable the "Include source files outside of the Root Directory in the Build Step" option in the Root Directory section within the project settings.

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:21:40.000Z

Yeah :(, There we very less to configure with monorepos its really sad that vercel dosen't have this by default

riský

2023-09-25T18:22:24.000Z

to be fair, i expected it to exist... ðŸ˜

its not even an option for button: https://vercel.com/docs/deployments/deploy-button/build-settings#root-directory

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:27:33.000Z

ooh yes ðŸ˜¦

I actually created this discussion but lol no one responded => https://github.com/vercel/vercel/discussions/10211

But thanks Risky User really appreciate your try ðŸ™Œ

riský

2023-09-25T18:31:47.000Z

i found a way... you have to use the api: https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api/endpoints#update-an-existing-project and sourceFilesOutsideRootDirectory property

@Yellow-horned horntail could you make it work with the api, or would this be chaotic..?

@riský <@435412297825910795> could you make it work with the api, or would this be chaotic..?

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:35:54.000Z

This is a great find !! But actually yeah its PITA to make it work through API and not that user friendly who will be using starter kit ðŸ˜…

riský

2023-09-25T18:36:00.000Z

edit: they have it on the vercel file: https://github.com/vercel/vercel/blob/main/packages/remix/test/fixtures/07-turborepo/vercel.json

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:37:45.000Z

I get this in vercel.json, but let me try it ðŸ™Œ

@Yellow-horned horntail This is a great find !! But actually yeah its PITA to make it work through API and not that user friendly who will be using starter kit ðŸ˜…

riský

2023-09-25T18:38:18.000Z

i actually looked at the http req when i changed the config... and tried to find it on the vercel website... it wasnt easy (their search didn't have it included)

@riský i actually looked at the http req when i changed the config... and tried to find it on the vercel website... it wasnt easy (their search didn't have it included)

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:44:57.000Z

The build was complete but it give me this in the end :

riský

2023-09-25T18:45:33.000Z

lol thats an error and a half

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:46:17.000Z

trying with this config now

riský

2023-09-25T18:49:30.000Z

lol the way this looks done is kinda weird...idk if its messeing with things... search for the name and see complexness: https://github.com/vercel/vercel/blob/main/packages/cli/src/commands/deploy/index.ts

@Yellow-horned horntail trying with this config now

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:51:06.000Z

it seems that nextjs is not recognizing "nextjs" framework and its serving all the contents in ".next" dir ðŸ˜¦

riský

2023-09-25T18:51:33.000Z

somehow it is reading that info and forgetting about the other info ðŸ˜

lol idk anymore

this is just weirdness

@riský somehow it is reading that info and forgetting about the other info ðŸ˜

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-25T18:52:28.000Z

Yeah

Any which way tysm @riský really appreciate it !

riský

2023-09-27T02:39:13.000Z

@Yellow-horned horntail did you happen to find any better solutions here?

Yellow-horned horntailOP

2023-09-27T16:05:01.000Z

https://github.com/scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-2/pull/544

check out this, its kind of work around were we buid locally the build first and then push it vercel

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riský

2023-09-27T16:07:48.000Z

i love the yolo