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Local Development

Prerequisites

  1. Link your projectvercel link or vercel link --repo (monorepo). Check your team first with vercel whoami.
  2. Pull env varsvercel pull or vercel env pull

Usage

bash
vercel dev                           # default: 0.0.0.0:3000
vercel dev --listen 8080             # custom port
vercel dev --listen 127.0.0.1:5000   # custom host and port
  • vercel link — connect to a Vercel project. Use --repo for multi-project monorepos.
  • vercel pull — download project settings and env vars to .env.local
  • vercel env pull — download only env vars (not project settings)
  • vercel init — scaffold a new project from a Vercel example
  • vercel open — open the Vercel dashboard for the linked project

Run vercel dev from a project subdirectory (e.g., apps/web/) to skip the project selection prompt.