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Deploying Node.js Servers with Zero Configuration

·2026.06.23 16:00

Key point

Vercel now lets you instantly deploy a Node.js server with just a server.ts file, no separate configuration needed.

Details

You can now deploy a Node.js server directly on Vercel without any separate configuration files. If a server.ts file exists at the project root or at src/server.ts, Vercel automatically detects it and deploys it as a Node.js application.

In addition to previously supported zero-config backend frameworks like Express, Koa, and NestJS, this update adds support for pure Node.js applications. With the Vercel CLI, server.ts is also automatically recognized without extra configuration during local development (vc dev) and deployment (vc deploy).

Vercel's backend runs on Fluid compute and applies the Active CPU pricing model.

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