HOSTING / LESSON 11
Vercel Account Setup.
Creating your Vercel account
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Creating your Vercel account
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Yep, another account. I promise this one earns its spot. By the end of this lesson you'll have Vercel hooked up to GitHub and you'll know your way around the dashboard.
Good news, Vercel lets you sign up with an account you already have.
Open your browser and head to vercel.com. Click the "Sign Up" button in the top right corner.
You'll see options to sign up with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or email. Click "Continue with GitHub."
You already made a GitHub account earlier in this course, so this is the easy route. It also lets Vercel get at your repositories, which you'll need in a minute anyway.
GitHub will ask if you want to let Vercel into your account. Click "Authorize Vercel." That lets Vercel see your repositories and deploy code from them.
Vercel will ask which plan you want. Pick "Hobby" for now. It's free and it has everything you need to learn.
Your account exists now. Next, let's double check that Vercel can actually see your repositories.
Click your profile picture in the top right, then click "Settings."
In the left sidebar, click "Git Integration" or "Connected Accounts."
You should see GitHub listed with a green checkmark. That means the connection is working.
If you want Vercel to see ALL your repositories, you might need to tweak the permissions. Click "Configure" next to GitHub and pick one of these.
Choose "Only select repositories" and add the practice repository you plan to deploy. You can expand access later if you need another project.
Let's look around at what you'll see when you log in.
This is home base. It shows you a few things.
Since you're brand new, it'll be empty. Tumbleweeds. That's okay! We'll add a project in the next lesson.
Up at the very top you'll find these.
Over on the left side there's this.
Once you deploy a project, you'll also see these.
You might notice Vercel talking about "teams." Here's the deal.
For now you'll stick with your personal account. Teams come into play when you're working on the same projects with other people.
Vercel gives you two ways to work.
Most beginners start with the dashboard because it's visual and easy to follow, so that's what this module sticks to. The CLI is great once you're more comfortable... but you don't NEED it.
Now for the fun part. In the next lesson you'll deploy your first project to Vercel and watch it go live on the internet.