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