Build a Vercel Postgres Backend with Payload in 5 Minutes

James walks through how to use Payload with Vercel Postgres in five minutes.

Get started in one line: npx create-payload-app

What's Payload?
Payload is the best way to build a modern backend and admin UI. No black magic, all TypeScript, and fully open-source, Payload is both an app framework and a headless CMS.

[charlesbcraig]

Finally someone not afraid to show their secret key that's going to be defunct by the time the video airs! :D

[Sofia-tsgy]

looking forward to the migrations guide bc as a hobbyist/amateur who’s just starting to understand databases, coordinating between local and production with them is the scariest, most confusing part for me rn ^^;

[pjayo]

PCMS get better and better! Very happy about PostgreSQL.

[__haah]

Looking forward to using this approach in my future projects, looks like a very pleasant DX ✌🏽

[budivoogt]

Looks awesome, looking forward to trying this.

[hm_webdev]

Adding Postgres support is what will have me move away from Strapi if Payload is as good as it appears to be.

I'm going to be trying it out for a real production project soon. If its good, ill be singing your praises from rooftops.

[dragonore]

Great, I'll have to learn how migrations work. My DB and backend is on a different platform and my frontend on Vercel.

[adamsonvispo]

Anyone knows how to handle the auto sync/migrate? I dockerize my project and Im having postgre errors when altering the Collection schema (like ENUM label already exist). It seems like its assuming an empty postgre db when ever the server restarts either via container restart or payload.config.ts changes while running migration script again. I use version 2.x btw. Thanks in advance.

[_timestamp]

Amazing! Do you plan to add mysql and sqlite support?

[csayantan]

can you please help us with integration of payload with the existing project in angular 17/18 with xata?

[RomeoMihalcea]

bam, boom, bam, boom and bam and boom

[bensmith]

Can Payload work with Xata DB, their free plan on Postgres is quite appealing?

[florentd.]

Full vps on debian or ubuntu server installation please. Open source mean, i don't want to be the slave to one or two hosting solution with amazon or Google behind.

[johnemmanuelbalili]

I successfully created an app and is working fine on my local.
However, when deploying to Payload, it gives me a connect error.
Cannot connect to Postgres

[davidsejna]

Is it possible to deploy payload CMS in vercel? and how?

[cmaxkratos]

Nice!

Is mysql support in the plans?

[yixe]

Payload left a very bad taste in my mouth on release with the licensing stuff which was a shame because it looked great, is that still the case?