How should I import an existed project in v0 or keep in sync local?

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I think this should be a very common and usual scenario.

I have a build up existed project, and now I want develop it with v0
I want to build up a new project with v0, but I also need to keep in sync with the real repo, in case of others is developing on it or the vercel preview env have some limitations, which local runtime doesn't have.

How should I achieve this?

LikeDreamwalker/nextjs-authjs-passport-template: A passport build up with Next.js and auth.js and shadcn/ui Like this repo, I have set it up and import it in Vercel project, but seems like even if I link it with v0 project, v0 still can't read the files, and I have no other idea how should I import the whole project.

Vercel Alum

Hi, !

Hopefully this post from another discussion helps:

https://community.vercel.com/t/clarification-on-link-between-v0-and-vercel-platform/2596/4

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Sadly I have tried and that's not what I want. My current scenario is linking between the v0 and the real git provider, like GitHub, I don't actually need Vercel for now but it's good that I can link v0 with Vercel.

So do you guys have any plans on this? Like Copilot, Cursor or any other AI Coding tools. I understand they are based on VS Code, but still I think this is a very large shortcoming of v0, can't read and use an existed project. Even if allow user to upload the whole project folder can be better than nothing.

Vercel Alum

Thank you for clarifying! Currently this isn't possible, but I will send this feedback over to the v0 team.

I'll keep you updated here!

reply to #2

Hi 👋 I've been using V0 for 2 months now and like it a lot. I came to this forum for the same question. In your response, you mentioned "Once set up, any prompts you create within the Project will automatically be based on this connection". It is unclear to me what it means "based on this connection". if V0 doesn't have access to the files on vercel, what information does it have (besides the env variables), if any?

On that note, I'm not sure that this is the place to share this feedback, but I found V0 super useful to bootstrap an app from nothing, but once the project exists, and especially if it had a DB connection (which I have with Vercel), V0 can no longer generate the preview. This makes V0 not so different than any LLM like ChatGPT with the difference that it shows the files in a file-explorer view on the right panel. I hope this is not true and that I'm uninformed and not using the tool properly.

Kindly await your response.

reply to #6

I don't think they have a plan on that. v0 seems more like a tool to replace codesandbox to reproduce and share the idea, not the production tool to build up hard codes. I am giving up on using it.

Vercel Alum

Hey, folks! This may be an interesting update for you all.

https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/1910041393072115740

JJared Palmer (@jaredpalmer)

🔜 GitHub @v0 integration

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Kindly await your response.