Hi. I paid a developer to help me create an app and he used vercel v0. However, now he has gone AFK and I need to continue development but unfortunately, as the guidance specify connecting with github etc then it makes it a bit difficult. I got a zip file though. Is there a way that I can take an active website and continue developing it in v0?
I got a zip file though and I uploaded it first and it said max x mb file size. I noticed that the majority of the larger files were node modules so what I did was separate these out and import the smaller files. v0 gave me success messages and I also made some database connections that seemed to work but again, nothing was actually working etc. It would be great on any help on this topic please.
When uploading the zip you’ll definitely want to remove the .next and node_modules folders. You can also remove /components/ui since v0 will create its own for you, but only if you need the extra MBs
There are two main concepts to know in v0
Projects connect to a deployment URL, can integrate with databases, and store environment variables
Chats are like versions of a project, and you can have many chats within a project
The zip file you received will have come from one of the chats, but that means you’re still missing the project configuration. Once you upload the zip, if there are any environment variables referenced in the code, v0 should prompt you to add the appropriate integrations, but feel free to ask in this thread if you run into issues
You do not need to set up GitHub to get going here, though you may want to eventually as it’s a safer place to keep backups of your code during development than download zip files
I’ll re-link that article here because it’s worth reading
Thanks for the reply. I have seen this link but perhaps I am not knowledgeable enough to do this properly. I was hoping to upload the zip files for the backend and front end either together or separate and upload and it will recreate it. In this case, it is using a MongoDB so I was questioned about the API etc and I believe I provided the right info and it wrote “success” etc but I am just stuck on deploying now on a continuous loop. Just FYI, not once has it this import shown anything that looks like the past app.
When I click on deploy it just gives continuous errors and does not appear to be advancing. The latest issue that it is stuck on seems to be this: “The “functions” property cannot be used in conjunction with the “builds” property. Please remove one of them”. I then click “fix with v0” and it keeps recognising but looping the same issue. It says “I keep making the same mistake. I am STILL cinlduing both properties, let me give you the correct BUILDSonly configuration. Deploy now, this show finally resolve the deployment error”. and it just shows the same thing again and again. I started this with v14 and it is now v23 with no clear advancement at all.