Vercel/README.md

📷 Photo Blog

This template is in BETA.

Optimizations are still being made around auth and cache behavior.

Database schema changes are expected.

1. Deploy to Vercel

1. Click Deploy
2. Add required storage (Vercel Postgres + Vercel Blob)
3. Add environment variables

• NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_TITLE (e.g., My Photos)
• NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_DOMAIN (e.g., photos.domain.com)
• NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_DESCRIPTION (optional—mainly used for OG meta)

2. Setup Auth

1. Create Clerk account
2. Add Clerk environment variables:

• NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_IN_URL
• CLERK_SECRET_KEY
• CLERK_ADMIN_USER_ID

3. Create admin user (you'll use this to access /admin on your blog)
4. Add admin user id to environment variables:

• CLERK_ADMIN_USER_ID

3. Upload your first photo

1. Visit /admin
2. Click "Choose File"
3. Title your photo
4. Click "Create"

4. Develop locally

1. Clone code
2. Install dependencies pnpm i
3. Run vc dev to utilize Vercel-stored environment variables

5. Add Analytics (optional)

1. Open project on Vercel
2. Click "Analytics" tab
3. Follow "Enable Web Analytics" instructions (@vercel/analytics is already part of your project)