Deploy Laravel on Vercel

😎 Getting Started

Let's picture you want to deploy your awesome microproject written in PHP and you don't know where. You have found Vercel it's awesome, but for static sites. Not anymore! I would like to introduce you your new best friend vercel-php, PHP runtime for Vercel platform.

Most simple example project is this one, using following project structure.

project
├── api
│   └── index.php
└── .vercelignore
└── vercel.json

First file api/index.php is entrypoint of our application. It should be placed in api folder, it's very standard location for Vercel.

<?php
phpinfo();

Second file vercel.json is pure gold here. Setup your project with configuration like this and voila. That's all.

{
    "functions": {
        "api/*.php": {
            "runtime": "vercel-php@0.6.0"
        }
    }
}

Last thing you have to do is call vercel. If you are more interested take a look at features and usage.

# Install it globally
npm i -g vercel

# Log in
vercel login

# Let's fly
vercel

Are you ready to deploy your first PHP project to Vercel? Click & Go!

🤗 Features

• Architecture: PHP development server (🚀 fast enough)
• PHP version: 8.2 (https://example-php-8-2.vercel.app)
• Extensions: apcu, bcmath, brotli, bz2, calendar, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, ds, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, geoip, gettext, hash, iconv, igbinary, imap, intl, json, libxml, lua, mbstring, mongodb, msgpack, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, phalcon, Phar, protobuf, readline, redis, Reflection, runkit7, session, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, sodium, SPL, sqlite3, standard, swoole, timecop, tokenizer, uuid, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, Zend OPcache, zlib, zip
• Speed: cold ~250ms / warm ~5ms
• Memory: ~90mb
• Frameworks: Nette, Symfony, Lumen, Slim, Phalcon

List of all installable extensions is on this page https://blog.remirepo.net/pages/PECL-extensions-RPM-status.

💯 Versions

• vercel-php@0.6.0 - PHP 8.2.x (https://example-php-8-2.vercel.app)
• vercel-php@0.5.3 - PHP 8.1.x (https://example-php-8-1.vercel.app)
• vercel-php@0.4.1 - PHP 8.0.x (https://example-php-8-0.vercel.app)
• vercel-php@0.3.3 - PHP 7.4.x (https://example-php-7-4.vercel.app)

⚙️ Usage

Before you can start using this runtime, you should learn about Vercel and how runtimes works. Take a look at blogpost about Serverless Functions.

You should define functions property in vercel.json and list PHP files directly or using wildcard (*). If you need to route everything to index, use routes property.

{
    "functions": {
        "api/*.php": {
            "runtime": "vercel-php@0.6.0"
        }
    },
    "routes": [{ "src": "/(.*)", "dest": "/api/index.php" }]
}

Do you have more questions (❓)? Let's move to FAQ.

👨‍💻 vercel dev

For running vercel dev properly, you need to have PHP installed on your computer, learn more. But it's PHP and as you know PHP has built-in development server. It works out of box.

If you have some deployement errors, please check this link