Linking is a bit of a bummer

[zackkrida]

Previously, now dev was an awesome tool to test one-off serverless functions locally. The project linking requirement feels prohibitive here. Totally understand the motivation behind it, just thought I'd bring it up. Love all of zeit's services!

[styfle]

Thanks for the feedback!

We are aware of the pain for new projects using now dev since Now 17 which requires project linking. We are looking at different ways of solving this issue such as introducing now link to create a project without deploying (today you have to deploy with now before developing locally which seems backwards).

Related: #3767

[styfle]

The canary channel has been updated with a new command, vercel link.

Additionally, vercel dev will ask to link to a project if it is not already.

Try it out now with npm i -g vercel@canary, thanks!