Academy starters

The starter and finished code for Vercel Academy courses. Each course has its own folder, and each course page tells you which folder you need and when.

New here? Find your course below, open its page, and follow along from the first lesson. You don't need to clone this whole repo. The course gives you a Deploy button or a copy command for the one folder it uses.

Find your course

Course	Folders
Agent-Friendly APIs	starter, complete
Build Durable Workflows	starter, complete
Build Visual Workflow Plugins on Vercel	starter
Build with Next.js	starter
Builders Guide to the AI SDK	starter
Building Agents with eve	complete
Building Filesystem Agents	starter, complete
Creating a Software Factory	starter, complete
Enterprise Apps and Agents	starter, implementation-start, agent-start, complete
Make Decisions with Jev	starter, complete
Nuxt on Vercel	starter, complete
Optimize Your Vercel Account	starter, complete
Production Monorepos with Turborepo	starter, complete
Python on Vercel	starter, complete
Slack Agents on Vercel with the AI SDK	starter
Svelte on Vercel	starter, complete
Using AI Gateway in Production	starter
Vercel Sandbox	starter, complete

What's in a course folder

• starter/ is where you begin. It's a working app with the parts the course teaches left for you to build.
• complete/ is the finished app, with every change the course makes. Use it to check your work, or to see where a lesson is headed.
• Checkpoint folders, like enterprise-apps-agents/implementation-start/, hold files a course hands you partway through. The lesson that needs one tells you what to copy.

Some courses only have one of these. A course where you build from scratch keeps just complete/ as a reference, and a course that builds on one deployed app may have just starter/.

Getting a starter

Most courses start with a Deploy with Vercel button. It copies the starter into a new repository on your GitHub account and deploys it, so you're live before you write any code.

To work from the code locally instead, copy just the folder you need:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vercel/academy-starters.git
cp -R academy-starters/optimize-your-vercel-account/starter my-saturday-store
cd my-saturday-store

Each folder's README.md and package.json list what it needs to run, like the Node.js version and the environment variables to set.

Stuck?

1. Check the lesson's troubleshooting section. Most snags you'll hit are already in there.

2. Compare your code with the course's complete/ folder. To see everything a course changes, diff the two:

   diff -r optimize-your-vercel-account/starter optimize-your-vercel-account/complete

3. Head back to Vercel Academy for the full course list and the lessons themselves.