Vercel

Vercel lets you host a public version of your project for free, or you can create and host a password-protected version with Vercel's $150/month pro plan. Netlify offers the same option for $15/month.

Deploy to Vercel

1. Run your project in development mode
2. Visit the settings page
3. Open the deployment panel, and select 'Vercel', then follow the provided instructions

Optional: Set a site-wide password for your project (Requires Paid Plan)

Follow the directions provided by Vercel to set up a password for your site: https://vercel.com/blog/protecting-deployments

Optional: Schedule updates using Deploy Hooks

If you want your site to update on a specific schedule, you can use GitHub Actions (or another similar service) to schedule regular calls to a Vercel deploy hook.

1. Create a Vercel deploy hook. This will give you a URL that GitHub will use to trigger builds

2. Add VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK to your Github Repo's Secrets

• In your GitHub repo, go to Settings > Secrets > Actions and click New repository secret and create a secret, VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK, with the URL from step 1.

3. Add a schedule file to your project

• Create a new directory in your project called .github
• Within that directory, create another called workflows
• Add a new file in .github/workflows called main.yml

4. Add the following text to the main.yml file you just created. Be sure that the indentation in your main.yml matches the below.

	

		
					
		
		
name: Schedule Vercel Deploy
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 10 * * *' # Once a day around 6am ET (10am UTC)
jobs:
  build:
    name: Request Vercel Webhook
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: POST to Deploy Hook
        env:
          BUILD_HOOK: ${{ secrets.VERCEL_DEPLOY_HOOK }}
        run: curl -X POST -d {} $BUILD_HOOK
		

5. See your GitHub Actions run in the Actions tab of your GitHub repo