When will you use this?

Use auth when students, instructors, or admins must sign in before seeing content.

• Students sign in with email or Google before accessing paid course content.
• Middleware redirects guests away from /dashboard to the login page.

Real-world: Practo-style clinic portal

The Healthcare team building Practo-style clinic portal uses Vercel Deployment to apply Vercel Deployment when building appointment booking and medical records UI. patients and doctors never see the TypeScript files — they just get a fast, reliable appointment booking and medical records UI.

Production-style code

# Deploy steps (after git push)
# 1. Import repo at vercel.com/new
# 2. Set env vars: DATABASE_URL, NEXTAUTH_SECRET, NEXTAUTH_URL
# 3. Build command: npm run build (default)
# 4. Production URL: learnhub.vercel.app

# vercel.json (optional)
{
  "framework": "nextjs"
}

What happens in production: In Practo-style clinic portal, getting Vercel Deployment right means patients and doctors trust the appointment booking and medical records UI every day.

Lesson example (start here)

Copy this smaller example first. Once it works, compare it with the real-world code above.

# Deploy steps (after git push)
# 1. Import repo at vercel.com/new
# 2. Set env vars: DATABASE_URL, NEXTAUTH_SECRET, NEXTAUTH_URL
# 3. Build command: npm run build (default)
# 4. Production URL: learnhub.vercel.app

# vercel.json (optional)
{
  "framework": "nextjs"
}

Line-by-line walkthrough

How it works (big picture)

• Vercel detects Next.js automatically.
• Set production env vars to match .env.local.
• Preview deployments use branch-specific URLs.

Do this on your computer

1. Push LearnHub to GitHub.
2. Import project on Vercel.
3. Add environment variables.
4. Open the production URL and test login and catalog.
5. Read the real-world section and name which part of LearnHub uses this topic.
6. Run the example locally with npm run dev and confirm the same behavior.
7. Change one value in the example (route, text, or course id) and predict what will happen before you save.

Experiments — try changing this

• Change a string or route in the example and save — watch the browser update.
• Break the code on purpose (remove a bracket), read the error overlay, then fix it.
• Use npm run dev while editing Vercel Deployment — the page hot-reloads on save.

Remember

Git push triggers deploy. Set all secrets in Vercel dashboard. Preview URLs help code review.

Common questions