I'm in the process of adding a Database to my web app. I am using Git (VSCode that pushes to Vercel and uses the Neon Database / prisma.
I've set up all the routing via documentation and have everything structured as it should however I can no longer deploy on vercel. From VScode it pushes only to git and not to vercel. In Git via that terminal if I run Vercel --prod I receive the following error:
Vercel CLI 41.4.1 Error: Environment Variable "DATABASE_URL" references Secret "DATABASE_URL", which does not exist.
I have checked all my routes and everything is correct, there should be no error with a Secret for DATABASE_URL. It does exist and is referenced in Neon correctly. I've tried a bunch of things with nothing being successful.
Any help to resolve would be greatly appreciated.
Remove those variables from vercel.json.
Make sure you have your database environment variables configured properly on VERCEL Dashboard/Env. Vars.
Update your local .env from vercel database: vercel env pull.
that should get you going. I advise you do some reading on what env vars are (that's a huge value prop of using Vercel for multiple deployments and branched Databases, e.g. 1 DB branch per git branch/deployment).