Vercel

Inngest enables you to host your functions on Vercel using their serverless functions platform. This allows you to deploy your Inngest functions right alongside your existing website and API functions running on Vercel.

Inngest will call your functions securely via HTTP request on-demand, whether triggered by an event or on a schedule in the case of cron jobs.

Hosting Inngest functions on Vercel

After you've written your functions using Next.js or Vercel's Express-like functions within your project, you need to serve them via the serve handler. Using the serve handler, create a Vercel/Next.js function at the /api/inngest endpoint. Here's an example in a Next.js app:

js
// ./pages/api/inngest.js
import { serve } from "inngest/next";
import firstFunction from "../../inngest/first";
import anotherFunction from "../../inngest/another";
export default serve("Your app's name", [ firstFunction, anotherFunction ]);

Deploying to Vercel

Installing Inngest's official Vercel integraiton does 3 things:

1. Automatically sets the required INNGEST_SIGNING_KEY environment variable to securely communicate with Inngest's API
2. Automatically sets the INNGEST_EVENT_KEY environment variable to enable your application to send events (docs)
3. Automatically deploys new functions to Inngest every time you deploy updated code to Vercel - no need to change your existing workflow!

Install the Inngest Vercel integration

After you're installed, every new deploy to Vercel will update functions in the Inngest dashboard within a few seconds!

Manually registering functions

While we strongly recommend our Vercel integration, you can still use Inngest by manually telling Inngest that you've deployed updated functions. You can register your app via the Inngest UI or via our API with a curl request.