Possible to deploy nitro server to Vercel (without Nuxt?)

[outofthisworld]

Question

I'm currently custom configuring a project that is potentially a little different from the usual as it is using two frameworks (remix.js, nitro server).

The server is packaged in the project as a seperate node_module so the server can be used across projects. Nitro (which is used for Nuxt3, has a preset called vercel) which produces a build output suitable for vercel.

Within the index route of the nitro server, I have created a request handler using createRequestHandler which is exported from "@vercel/remix".

This route imports the remix build and does the appropriate transformations of the request to a web request for vercel.

e.g

export default eventHandler(async (event) => {
  // createRequestHandler imported from @vercel/remix and` importBuild()` imports the compiled remix build 
  return createRequestHandler(await importBuild())(toWebRequest(event), event.context);
});

The problem is that when I deploy, Vercel doesn't seem to be detecting the custom nitro server build and instead detects the remix build and runs that using Vercel. Even if I change the project type to "other" (as nitro is not available as an option) it still detects the project as a Remix project (maybe because of the lack of nitro.config.js file in the project root as this is within the server inside node_modules).

Any ideas on how I can get this to work?

I was hoping to use nitro to have some of the epic benefits of using Nuxt, but using React as the front-end instead of Vue. The hard part is configuring things right so that Vercel detects the right project type and deploys things correctly

[pi0]

Hi. This should not be the case and might be a bug with vercel's edge. We have nitro test deployments (https://nitro-app.vercel.app/, https://nitro-app-edge.vercel.app/)

can you be able to make a reproduction or share your project?

[Ext-NT]

You might try to check out the above answer, looks the best from here

[outofthisworld]

Sorry what answer are you referring too @Ext-NT ? The above comment is mine showcasing an example project where deploying it to Vercel does not work correctly.

[pi0]

(i guess it is an Ai answer 😓) thanks for sharing info. I have added to my todo list to check but probably we might need vercel support in the end. Have you tried disabling automatic framework preset in vercel dashboard btw?

[outofthisworld]

@pi0 Yes I have tried. I initially tried Remix preset in Vercel, which deployed the remix build output using Vercels server. Not being what I wanted, I changed the preset to Other. This also didn't correctly identify what the correct build output was to use. I also can't really specify the build output folder to Vercel, as it is expecting a 'front-end' build folder so specifying the nitro build output would just host these build files statically

[outofthisworld]

@pi0 did you manage to look into this?