Hi there! I am hosting a Nest.js backend application on Vercel - for ease of deployment and to have everything in one place. Some of my routes take more than 10s and therefore hit the maximum duration limit. I’ve tried increasing the limit as per the docs: Configuring Maximum Duration for Vercel F…

As far as I know exporting maxDuration won’t work as we don’t support it in Nest.js. I haven’t tested this with Nest.js, but it might be possible to do something like this in vercel.json? { "functions": { "src/main.ts": { "runtime": "@vercel/node", "maxDuration": 30 } } } …

Hi @yyosifov ! Seeing as you need to use both the builds and functions properties together in your vercel.json configuration, you’re right - you will need to approach it differently since Vercel does not support using both properties in combination. You already mentioned trying to use a Function Fi…

Hi @pawlean ! Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve tried adding this to several places: Added to main.ts - where the bootstrap() of the nest.js is done. It breaks the whole application with an error like this one: Invalid export found in module "/var/task/backend/src/main.js". The default export must …

Tagging @eben-bealcoza here, they recently shared that they increased their timeout for their project. I wonder if they may have some insights! [image] Rest API with subdomain Help Issues have been resolved. I updated the timeout to be longer and making posts now to the h…

Thanks for the detail! I’d love to test this out with a minimal reproducible example . I sometimes find that stripping down the application to the bare minimum helps debug problems better. Also, have you got any logs that may give you some helpful pointers? For local testing, you could simulate the…

[image] yyosifov: default would be 15s, which I won’t be able to increase further. Sorry for the late reply. … . This is exactly what I did, I tried the config on the dashboard but eventually I added vercel.json to the project with the below config. Not optimised but it is a start. { “funct…

Nest.js - increase max duration timeout

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pawlean (Pauline P. Narvas) July 18, 2024, 10:22am 4

Tagging @eben-bealcoza here, they recently shared that they increased their timeout for their project. I wonder if they may have some insights!

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Nest.js - increase max duration timeout

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