Company
Date Published
Author
Gustavo Salomão
Word count
570
Language
English
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None

Summary

Vercel users can now utilize Neon’s Native Vercel Integration to automatically create a database branch for each preview deployment through the Vercel Marketplace, simplifying the management of database environments during development. This integration helps avoid conflicts and leftover test data by ensuring that tests in one preview deployment do not affect others, and it allows for instant setup of databases through a copy-on-write mechanism, eliminating the need to manually populate them with seed data. Developers can integrate schema migrations directly into their deployment process, ensuring that changes are applied automatically to the database branch, and can quickly reset environments with a single click if necessary. To set up this integration, users need to connect their Vercel project to a Neon database and configure the deployment settings to create a database branch for each preview, significantly enhancing development efficiency and reducing manual cleanup tasks.