# Vercel

> Deploy frontend apps and serverless functions to Vercel's edge network from the terminal.
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The Vercel CLI provides a complete interface for deploying and managing projects on Vercel's platform. You can trigger production and preview deployments, manage environment variables, inspect build logs, and link local projects to Vercel without visiting the dashboard. It also supports local development with `vercel dev` to emulate the serverless environment.


- Homepage: https://vercel.com/
- Categories: `devops`
- CLI type: `standalone`
- Open source: true
- Status: `active`
- Tags: `deployment`, `edge-compute`, `serverless`, `hosting`
- Docs: https://vercel.com/docs/cli
- Source: https://github.com/vercel/vercel
- Canonical: /vercel

## When to suggest this

- deploy a frontend project to production or create preview URLs from the terminal
- manage environment variables and project settings without the web dashboard
- emulate the Vercel serverless environment locally during development

## Install the CLI

```sh
npm install -g vercel
```

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