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Vercel Fundamentals: What It Is & How Deployment Works
12 min
What you will learn
- Connect a GitHub repository to Vercel and trigger your first deployment
- Understand the build pipeline: how Vercel detects your framework and builds automatically
- Use preview deployments to test changes before they reach production
- Read deployment logs to diagnose build failures
# Vercel Fundamentals: What It Is & How Deployment Works
Why Vercel?
Before Vercel, deploying a web app meant configuring servers, setting up Nginx, managing SSL certificates, and writing deployment scripts. Vercel eliminates all of that. You push code, it builds and deploys. That is the entire workflow.
Vercel is purpose-built for frontend frameworks — especially Next.js — but it deploys any framework: React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, or even plain HTML. It provides:
- Automatic builds on every push to your repository
- Preview deployments — a unique URL for every pull request
- Global CDN — your static assets served from 100+ edge locations
- Serverless functions — backend API routes that scale to zero
Connecting Your Repository
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What you'll learn:
- Connect a GitHub repository to Vercel and trigger your first deployment
- Understand the build pipeline: how Vercel detects your framework and builds automatically
- Use preview deployments to test changes before they reach production