Deploying to Vercel

You can use any hosting provider that supports Node.js applications, but for the sake of simplicity, we’re going to use Vercel  as it would take minimal effort to deploy the app for a quick demo. We’re going to need to set up two integrations for Vercel: Neon  for Postgres/PGVector database hosting and Redis  for Redis hosting. The first one is going to be used as the main database, while the second one is going to be used as a database event bus for real-time features that will be described in the Polling article, but also as a temporary storage for messages consumed by the demo Telegram Bot.

Note: Vovk.ts is not affiliated with Vercel, Telegram or Neon in any way.

In order to deploy the app, with the same setup, create a new project at Vercel, link it to the fork of the GitHub repository, and add the above mentioned integrations.

Add OPENAI_API_KEY at the project environment variables. Other variables such as DATABASE_URL and REDIS_URL are going to be created automatically by the integrations.

It’s also recommended to add PASSWORD variable in order to enable simple (and free) password protection for the app. You can set it to any desired value.

For MCP protection, you can also add MCP_ACCESS_KEY variable in order to enable simple authorization for MCP server using ?mcp_access_key=your_key query param. If this variable is not set, no authorization is required. It’s described in more detail in the MCP article.

Finally, for Telegram bot integration, you can add TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN variable if you want to use Telegram bot feature. See the Telegram Integration article for more details.

In case of a problem, check the .env.template  file for reference.