Install apps with Vercel or via CLI is not working

[michalina-graczyk]

1. Create a new env
2. In apps install an app using 'Deploy to Vercel'
3. Do all required steps in Vercel
4. Install app in dashboard Current result: "message":"Registration failed: could not save the auth data." "message":"APL_NOT_CONFIGURED. App is configured properly. Check APL docs for help." -> this one was for an app installed via CLI

[lkostrowski]

We decided to drop "deploy to vercel" since its unstable and replace it with Github Fork

https://github.com/saleor/apps/issues/98

[simon-online]

This is the exact issue that I am getting when I try to install the CMS app that I have successfully deployed on Vercel at https://saleor-apps-taupe.vercel.app/

I tried this with dashboard v3.13.3 core v3.13.16 apps v1.6.0

What can I do to resolve this?

[lkostrowski]

@simon-online you need to set up your APL layer

https://docs.saleor.io/docs/3.x/developer/extending/apps/architecture/apl#what-is-apl

https://github.com/saleor/saleor-app-sdk/blob/main/docs/apl.md

On local development you can use FileAPL but in serverless environment you need to provide some layer of persistence. Can be redis/upstash/vercel KV etc

[simon-online]

Got it, thanks for that.

For anyone else interested I was able to deploy the cms app on Vercel by selecting saleor/apps as an external repository for a new Vercel project which automatically forked it on GitHub.

For successful deployment I did the following things:

• Under project Storage I created a KV database and connected it to the environments I was deploying for. This will automatically add some new KV_* environment variables to your project with the KV database connection details.
• Under project Settings > Environment Variables I added the following new environment variables:
• APL = upstash
• UPSTASH_URL = to the same value copied from KV_REST_API_URL
• UPSTASH_TOKEN = to the same value copied from KV_REST_API_TOKEN
• SECRET_KEY = to a secret key which is required for production
• Under project Settings > General set the Root Directory to apps/cms or whatever app you want to deploy as each app directory is a separate Next JS project.

This would also be the same way that you could deploy your own custom Saleor apps on Vercel.

[lkostrowski]

Great @simon-online , good to know that our native Upstash APL works with the same values as Vercel KV 🚀

[simon-online]

Although I seem to have hit another roadblock as detailed here: https://github.com/saleor/apps/issues/513

Not sure if this is the result of trying to use the Upstash APL with Vercel KV.