vercel dev requires a deployment

[giuseppeg]

A couple of months ago I could run now dev without any prior deployment to Now, yesterday I tried vc dev and it asked me to deploy the project else it would exit. Am I missing something or is this the new default?

[ctrlplusb]

As far as I can tell they want you to have a configured "project" - so that the settings, such as the dev command can be fetched and executed. Would be cool if a project could be initialised / configured in some other manner that didn't require an initial deploy.

[styfle]

Would be cool if a project could be initialised / configured in some other manner that didn't require an initial deploy

Definitely! We are aware of this issue and are working on a way to link a project without deploying.

[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@latest, thanks!

Update: There's also a discussion about running vc dev without project linking in #4925.

[giuseppeg]

@styfle I guess we were asking if there is a way to run vercel dev locally without linking or creating a deployment/project.

[styfle]

vercel link doesn't create a deployment so that part is solved.

vercel dev needs to link to a project in order to retrieve the dev command.

In the future, we might change this to allow running vercel dev without project linking.

[jadbox]

How do we run Vercel dev without any project to link to?