# @vercel/build-utils
Latest version **14.10.1** (published 2026-09-14) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads
## Install
```sh
npm install @vercel/build-utils
pnpm add @vercel/build-utils
yarn add @vercel/build-utils
bun add @vercel/build-utils
```
## Health
**Score 70/100 (B)** — status: active.
Positive: has types; no vulnerabilities; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score; popular repo.
Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.
## Facts
| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 14.10.1 |
| Published | 2026-09-14 |
| First published | 2020-05-04 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 1.4 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 16269 |
| Maintainers | matheuss, matt.straka, vercel-release-bot, zeit-bot |
## Links
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/build-utils
- Repository: https://github.com/vercel/vercel
- Homepage: https://github.com/vercel/vercel/blob/main/DEVELOPING_A_RUNTIME.md
- Issues: https://github.com/vercel/vercel/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/@vercel/build-utils
## Dependencies (2)
- [es-module-lexer](https://npm.io/package/es-module-lexer.md) 1.5.0
- [cjs-module-lexer](https://npm.io/package/cjs-module-lexer.md) 1.2.3
## Recent versions
- 14.10.1 (latest) — 2026-09-14
- 13.19.0 (canary) — 2026-04-17
- 14.10.0 — 2026-09-11
- 14.9.3 — 2026-09-09
- 14.9.2 — 2026-09-08
- 14.9.1 — 2026-09-04
- 14.9.0 — 2026-09-01
- 14.8.0 — 2026-09-01
- 14.7.0 — 2026-08-29
- 14.6.1 — 2026-08-27
- 14.5.1 — 2026-08-26
- 14.5.0 — 2026-08-26
- 14.4.0 — 2026-08-22
- 14.3.0 — 2026-08-21
- 14.2.0 — 2026-08-20
- … 462 more at https://npm.io/package/@vercel/build-utils/versions
## README
Vercel
Develop. Preview. Ship.
Documentation ·
Changelog ·
Templates ·
CLI
## Vercel
Vercel’s AI Cloud is a unified platform for building modern applications, giving teams the tools to be flexible, move fast, and stay secure while focusing on their products instead of infrastructure.
## Deploy
Get started by [importing a project](https://vercel.com/new), [choosing a template](https://vercel.com/templates), or using the [Vercel CLI](https://vercel.com/docs/cli). Then, `git push` to deploy.
## Native CLI binaries
The standard npm installation remains unchanged:
```bash
npm i -g vercel
```
Native CLI binaries are distributed separately and do not affect the `vercel` npm package. To opt into the native binary and replace existing global `vercel` and `vc` commands, install the native package explicitly:
```bash
npm i -g @vercel/vc-native --force
```
The `--force` flag allows npm to replace existing global `vercel` and `vc` bin links. Users who do not install `@vercel/vc-native` continue using the regular Node.js-based CLI from `npm i -g vercel`.
Platform-specific packages are also available for direct installation when a specific binary is needed:
```bash
npm i -g @vercel/vc-native-darwin-x64 --force
```
## Documentation
For details on how to use Vercel, check out our [documentation](https://vercel.com/docs).
## Contributing
This project uses [pnpm](https://pnpm.io/) to install dependencies and run scripts.
You can use the `vercel` script to run local changes as if you were invoking Vercel CLI. For example, `vercel deploy --cwd=/path/to/project` could be run with local changes with `pnpm vercel deploy --cwd=/path/to/project`.
When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via [Vercel Community](https://community.vercel.com/tags/c/community/4/cli) with the owners of this repository before submitting a Pull Request.
Please read our [Code of Conduct](./.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) and follow it in all your interactions with the project.
### Local development
This project is configured in a monorepo, where one repository contains multiple npm packages. Dependencies are installed and managed with `pnpm`, not `npm` CLI.
To get started, execute the following:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/vercel/vercel
cd vercel
corepack enable
pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm lint
pnpm test-unit
```
Make sure all the tests pass before making changes.
#### Running Vercel CLI Changes
You can use `pnpm vercel` from the `cli` package to invoke Vercel CLI with local changes:
```bash
cd ./packages/cli
pnpm vercel
```
See [CLI Local Development](./packages/cli#local-development) for more details.
### Verifying your change
Once you are done with your changes (we even suggest doing it along the way), make sure all the tests still pass by running:
```bash
pnpm test-unit
```
from the root of the project.
If any test fails, make sure to fix it along with your changes. See [Interpreting test errors](#Interpreting-test-errors) for more information about how the tests are executed, especially the integration tests.
#### Reproducing affected builds and type-checks
CI compares the pull request head with the base and head commits recorded by GitHub. To inspect the same affected Turborepo task plan locally, commit your changes, check out the pull request head, and set the explicit SCM range:
```bash
export TURBO_SCM_BASE=$(gh pr view --json baseRefOid --jq .baseRefOid)
export TURBO_SCM_HEAD=$(gh pr view --json headRefOid --jq .headRefOid)
git fetch origin "$TURBO_SCM_BASE" "$TURBO_SCM_HEAD"
test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$TURBO_SCM_HEAD"
node utils/gen.js
pnpm exec turbo run ci:checks --affected --dry=json
```
To execute the selected tasks as CI does, replace the final command with:
```bash
pnpm exec turbo run ci:checks --affected --output-logs=errors-only --summarize --continue
```
Both commits must be available in the local clone; CI uses a full-history checkout and fails rather than treating a missing commit as an empty change. Lint, formatting, dependency checks, and generated asset validation remain repository-wide.
### Pull Request Process
Once you are confident that your changes work properly, open a pull request on the main repository.
The pull request will be reviewed by the maintainers and the tests will be checked by our continuous integration platform.
### Interpreting test errors
There are two primary kinds of tests in this repository: unit tests and end-to-end (E2E) tests.
Unit tests are primarily run with Vitest and execute quickly because they test isolated behavior.
#### End-to-end tests
Integration tests create deployments to your Vercel account using the `test` project name. After each test is deployed, the `probes` key is used to check if the response is the expected value. If the value doesn't match, you'll see a message explaining the difference. If the deployment failed to build, you'll see a more generic message like the following:
```log
[Error: Fetched page https://test-8ashcdlew.vercel.app/root.js does not contain hello Root!. Instead it contains An error occurred with this application.
NO_STATUS_CODE_FRO Response headers:
cache-control=s-maxage=0
connection=close
content-type=text/plain; charset=utf-8
date=Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:01:37 GMT
server=now
strict-transport-security=max-age=63072000
transfer-encoding=chunked
x-now-id=iad1:hgtzj-1560967297876-44ae12559f95
x-now-trace=iad1]
```
In such cases, you can visit the URL of the failed deployment and append `/_logs` to see the build error. In the case above, that would be https://test-8ashcdlew.vercel.app/_logs
The logs of this deployment will contain the actual error which may help you to understand what went wrong.
##### Running integration tests locally
While running the full integration suite locally is not recommended, it's sometimes useful to isolate a failing test by running it on your machine. To do so, you'll need to ensure you have the appropriate credentials sourced in your shell:
1. Create an access token. Follow the instructions here https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api#creating-an-access-token. Ensure the token scope is for your personal
account.
2. Grab the team ID from the Vercel dashboard at `https://vercel.com//~/settings`.
3. Source these into your shell rc file: `echo 'export VERCEL_TOKEN= VERCEL_TEAM_ID=' >> ~/.zshrc`
From there, you should be able to trigger an integration test. Choose one
that's already isolated to check that things work:
```bash
cd packages/next
```
Run the test:
```bash
pnpm test test/fixtures/00-server-build/index.test.js
```
> [!NOTE]
> If you receive a `401` status code while fetching the deployment, you need to disable [Deployment Protection](https://vercel.com/docs/security/deployment-protection) on the project.
#### @vercel/nft
Some of the Builders use `@vercel/nft` to tree-shake files before deployment. If you suspect an error with this tree-shaking mechanism, you can create the following script in your project:
```js
const { nodeFileTrace } = require('@vercel/nft');
nodeFileTrace(['path/to/entrypoint.js'], {
ts: true,
mixedModules: true,
})
.then(o => console.log(o.fileList))
.then(e => console.error(e));
```
When you run this script, you'll see all the imported files. If files are missing, the bug is in [@vercel/nft](https://github.com/vercel/nft) and not the Builder.
### Deploy a Builder with existing project
Sometimes you want to test changes to a Builder against an existing project, maybe with `vercel dev` or actual deployment. You can avoid publishing every Builder change to npm by uploading the Builder as a tarball.
1. Change directory to the desired Builder `cd ./packages/node`
2. Run `pnpm build` to compile typescript and other build steps
3. Run `npm pack` to create a tarball file. It is imporant to not use `pnpm pack` because it will not preserve the file permissions
4. Move the resulting tarball to a directory
5. Run `vercel ` to upload the tarball file and get a URL. Remember to append `/` to then end of your URL
6. Edit any existing `vercel.json` project and replace `use` with the URL
7. Run `vercel` or `vercel dev` to deploy with the experimental Builder
**Note:** You will need to turn off vercel authentication in settings -> deployment protection so the builder can be downloaded
## Reference
- [Code of Conduct](./.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
- [Contributing Guidelines](./.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Apache 2.0 License](./LICENSE)
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