Neon

What is Neon

Neon is a serverless, fully-managed Postgres platform with built-in auth. What makes it stand out:

• Branching: spin up an isolated copy of your data and schema in seconds. Iterate on a development branch, then promote changes to production without risking live data.
• Time-travel: automatic backups let you restore to any point in time.
• Generous free tier: up to 100 projects.

Setup

Connecting to Neon only takes a couple of minutes.

Prompt Dyad for a database

Just start chatting. When you request a backend or database feature, Dyad asks if you'd like to connect a database, the fastest way to kick off setup:

Add a database to store my todos

Choose Neon in the integration selector

When prompted to add a backend, pick Neon from the integration selector. You're taken to its connector in the Configure panel, where you can set everything up.

Connect your Neon account

Not connected yet? Click Connect Neon. Your browser opens to authorize Dyad via OAuth.

Once authorized, you're redirected back to Dyad and the connection is complete.

Choose or create a project

Pick an existing Neon project for your app, or create a new one. You can reuse one project across apps, but a separate project per app is simpler and safer.

Choose a branch

Next, pick which branch your app should use:

• Use development database (recommended): Develops against an isolated branch so your changes never affect live data. This is the safest option, but it means you'll need to run a migration step later to copy your schema to production before deploying.
• Separate production database: Uses the production branch directly. Faster, with no migration step needed, but development changes affect live data.

(Optional) Enable required email verification

Using Neon Auth? You can require users to verify their email on sign-up. Toggle it in your project settings for an extra layer of verification.

Development

Setup done. Now just keep chatting. Dyad handles your schema, queries, and auth using Neon.

On the development branch, every change stays isolated from production, so you can iterate freely. Open the Neon Console anytime to inspect tables and data.

Time to deploy

When your app is ready to go live, follow these steps.

If you chose the development branch

1. Open the Publish panel.
2. Choose which branch to deploy. It's recommended to choose production.
3. For production, click Migrate to Production. This copies your schema from the development branch to production so the live database matches what you built.

If you chose the production branch

No migration needed. Your app is already on the production branch, so it deploys directly.

Publish your app

Publish your app by following the steps in the Publishing your app guide. During publishing:

• Your environment variables will be injected automatically into Vercel.
• Your deployment domain will be added to Neon's auth redirect allowlist automatically.

Once that's done, your app is deployed and fully functional. 🎉

Keeping Vercel in sync

When you later change an environment variable or switch the deployment branch, click Sync to Vercel in the Database section. It pushes your database env vars to Vercel and adds your deployment domain to Neon's auth redirect allowlist.