Vercel SDK Patterns

Overview

Build a typed, production-ready wrapper around the Vercel REST API (api.vercel.com). Covers authentication, pagination, error handling, retry logic, and common endpoint patterns for deployments, projects, and environment variables.

Prerequisites

• Completed vercel-install-auth setup
• TypeScript project with strict mode enabled
• Vercel access token with appropriate scope

Instructions

Step 1: Create Typed API Client

// lib/vercel-client.ts
interface VercelClientConfig {
  token: string;
  teamId?: string;
  baseUrl?: string;
}

interface VercelError {
  error: { code: string; message: string };
}

class VercelClient {
  private token: string;
  private teamId?: string;
  private baseUrl: string;

  constructor(config: VercelClientConfig) {
    this.token = config.token;
    this.teamId = config.teamId;
    this.baseUrl = config.baseUrl ?? 'https://api.vercel.com';
  }

  private async request<T>(
    method: string,
    path: string,
    body?: unknown
  ): Promise<T> {
    const url = new URL(path, this.baseUrl);
    if (this.teamId) url.searchParams.set('teamId', this.teamId);

    const res = await fetch(url.toString(), {
      method,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.token}`,
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: body ? JSON.stringify(body) : undefined,
    });

    if (!res.ok) {
      const err: VercelError = await res.json();
      throw new VercelApiError(res.status, err.error.code, err.error.message);
    }

    // 204 No Content
    if (res.status === 204) return undefined as T;
    return res.json() as Promise<T>;
  }

  // --- Projects ---
  async listProjects(limit = 20) {
    return this.request<{ projects: VercelProject[] }>(
      'GET', `/v9/projects?limit=${limit}`
    );
  }

  async getProject(idOrName: string) {
    return this.request<VercelProject>('GET', `/v9/projects/${idOrName}`);
  }

  // --- Deployments ---
  async listDeployments(projectId?: string, limit = 20) {
    const params = new URLSearchParams({ limit: String(limit) });
    if (projectId) params.set('projectId', projectId);
    return this.request<{ deployments: VercelDeployment[] }>(
      'GET', `/v6/deployments?${params}`
    );
  }

  async getDeployment(idOrUrl: string) {
    return this.request<VercelDeployment>(
      'GET', `/v13/deployments/${idOrUrl}`
    );
  }

  // --- Environment Variables ---
  async listEnvVars(projectId: string) {
    return this.request<{ envs: VercelEnvVar[] }>(
      'GET', `/v9/projects/${projectId}/env`
    );
  }

  async createEnvVar(projectId: string, envVar: CreateEnvVarInput) {
    return this.request<VercelEnvVar>(
      'POST', `/v9/projects/${projectId}/env`, envVar
    );
  }

  // --- Domains ---
  async listDomains(projectId: string) {
    return this.request<{ domains: VercelDomain[] }>(
      'GET', `/v9/projects/${projectId}/domains`
    );
  }

  async addDomain(projectId: string, domain: string) {
    return this.request<VercelDomain>(
      'POST', `/v9/projects/${projectId}/domains`, { name: domain }
    );
  }
}

Step 2: Define Types

// lib/vercel-types.ts
interface VercelProject {
  id: string;
  name: string;
  framework: string | null;
  latestDeployments: VercelDeployment[];
  targets: Record<string, VercelDeployment>;
  createdAt: number;
  updatedAt: number;
}

interface VercelDeployment {
  uid: string;
  name: string;
  url: string;
  state: 'BUILDING' | 'ERROR' | 'INITIALIZING' | 'QUEUED' | 'READY' | 'CANCELED';
  target: 'production' | 'preview' | null;
  createdAt: number;
  buildingAt: number;
  ready: number;
  meta: Record<string, string>;
}

interface VercelEnvVar {
  id: string;
  key: string;
  value: string;
  type: 'system' | 'encrypted' | 'plain' | 'sensitive';
  target: ('production' | 'preview' | 'development')[];
  createdAt: number;
  updatedAt: number;
}

interface CreateEnvVarInput {
  key: string;
  value: string;
  type: 'encrypted' | 'plain' | 'sensitive';
  target: ('production' | 'preview' | 'development')[];
}

interface VercelDomain {
  name: string;
  verified: boolean;
  redirect: string | null;
  gitBranch: string | null;
  createdAt: number;
  updatedAt: number;
}

Step 3: Custom Error Class

// lib/vercel-errors.ts
class VercelApiError extends Error {
  constructor(
    public status: number,
    public code: string,
    message: string
  ) {
    super(`Vercel API ${status}: [${code}] ${message}`);
    this.name = 'VercelApiError';
  }

  get isRateLimit(): boolean { return this.status === 429; }
  get isNotFound(): boolean { return this.status === 404; }
  get isUnauthorized(): boolean { return this.status === 401 || this.status === 403; }
}

Step 4: Retry with Exponential Backoff

// lib/vercel-retry.ts
async function withRetry<T>(
  fn: () => Promise<T>,
  maxRetries = 3,
  baseDelayMs = 1000
): Promise<T> {
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++) {
    try {
      return await fn();
    } catch (err) {
      if (err instanceof VercelApiError && err.isRateLimit && attempt < maxRetries) {
        const delay = baseDelayMs * Math.pow(2, attempt) + Math.random() * 500;
        console.warn(`Rate limited. Retrying in ${Math.round(delay)}ms...`);
        await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, delay));
        continue;
      }
      throw err;
    }
  }
  throw new Error('Unreachable');
}

// Usage:
// const projects = await withRetry(() => client.listProjects());

Step 5: Paginated Fetching

// lib/vercel-pagination.ts
async function* paginateDeployments(
  client: VercelClient,
  projectId: string,
  pageSize = 100
): AsyncGenerator<VercelDeployment[]> {
  let until: number | undefined;

  while (true) {
    const params = new URLSearchParams({ limit: String(pageSize) });
    if (until) params.set('until', String(until));
    if (projectId) params.set('projectId', projectId);

    const { deployments } = await client.listDeployments(projectId, pageSize);
    if (deployments.length === 0) break;

    yield deployments;
    until = deployments[deployments.length - 1].createdAt;
    if (deployments.length < pageSize) break;
  }
}

API Endpoint Quick Reference

Output

• Type-safe Vercel API client with full TypeScript coverage
• Custom error class with semantic helpers (isRateLimit, isNotFound)
• Automatic retry with exponential backoff for 429 responses
• Paginated data fetching for large result sets

Error Handling

Resources

• Vercel REST API Reference
• Vercel REST API Endpoints
• Authentication

Next Steps

Proceed to vercel-deploy-preview for preview deployment workflows.