Vercel deployment fails when using `npx convex deploy --cmd '...'`
I've overridden the build command in Vercel when adding my project which is a basic Vite/React 19 project using Convex to be
npx convex deploy --cmd='vite build'
The error is:
However, when I change the build command to npx convex deploy && vite build things seem to work okay. Is this okay or is the --cmd option when calling convex deploy the ideal way?4 Replies
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From the error message you sent it looks like the codegen files are missing
We recommend that you commit the files in convex/_generated to your version control system (e.g. Git), is it the case in your project?
ah; understood. i thought it made sense to add convex/_generated to .gitignore maybe this is an assumption i made from earlier versions of convex
Also the difference between
npx convex deploy && npx vite build vs. npx convex deploy --cmd='npx vite build' (aside from deploy adding the generated files) is that the latter will wait to deploy your Convex functions until the --cmd succeeds.
If you had an error in the vite build command, the && version would deploy the new version of your Convex functions but then your frontend build would fail and your users would be on an old frontend version but with the new Convex functions