Add the Vercel Toolbar to your production environment

Learn how to add the Vercel Toolbar to your production environment to enable commenting and collaboration.

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Next.js (/app)

To enable the toolbar in your production environment, you can add it using the Vercel Chrome Extension, the command menu, or the @vercel/toolbar package.

Adding the toolbar using the Chrome extension

You can add the Vercel Toolbar to your production environment using the Vercel Chrome Extension. The extension allows you to access the toolbar on any website hosted on Vercel.

To add the Vercel Toolbar to your production environment:

Install the Vercel Chrome Extension from the Chrome Web Store
Ensure that you are logged in to your Vercel account on vercel.com. You must be signed in for the extension to know which domains you own
Ensure that you have deployed to production. Older deployments do not support injection through the browser extension

To manage the default visibility of the toolbar in production at either a team or project level, see Managing the default visibility of the toolbar.

Adding the toolbar using the command menu

To enable the toolbar on production environments from the command menu:

Open a preview deployment of your project
Select the menu icon in the toolbar
Scroll down to Enable Vercel Toolbar in Production and select it
Choose the domain you want to enable the toolbar on

To manage the default visibility of the toolbar in production at either a team or project level, see Managing the default visibility of the toolbar.

Adding the toolbar using the package or script

To add the Vercel Toolbar to your development or production environments, follow the steps below:

Install the @vercel/toolbar package and link your project
Install the package using the following command:
pnpm
yarn
npm
```
pnpm i @vercel/toolbar
```
Then link your local project to your Vercel project with the vercel link command using Vercel CLI.
terminal
```
vercel link [path-to-directory]
```

Add the toolbar to your project

Before using the Vercel Toolbar in a production deployment Vercel recommends conditionally injecting the toolbar. Otherwise, all visitors will be prompted to log in when visiting your site.

The following example demonstrates code that will show the Vercel Toolbar on a production deployment.

Next.js (/app)

Next.js (/pages)

SvelteKit

Other frameworks

components/staff-toolbar.tsx

'use client';
import { VercelToolbar } from '@vercel/toolbar/next';
import { useIsEmployee } from 'lib/auth'; // Your auth library
 
export function StaffToolbar() {
  const isEmployee = useIsEmployee();
  return isEmployee ? <VercelToolbar /> : null;
}

Next.js (/app)

Next.js (/pages)

SvelteKit

Other frameworks

app/layout.tsx

import { Suspense } from 'react';
import { StaffToolbar } from '@components/staff-toolbar';
 
export default function RootLayout({
  children,
}: {
  children: React.ReactNode;
}) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        {children}
        <Suspense>
          <StaffToolbar />
        </Suspense>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Managing notifications and integrations for Comments on production
Unlike comments on preview deployments, alerts for new comments won't be sent to a specific user by default. Vercel recommends linking your project to Slack with the integration, or directly mentioning someone when starting a new comment thread in production to ensure new comments are seen
Manage visibility of the toolbar
To manage the default visibility of the toolbar in production at either a team or project level, see Managing the default visibility of the toolbar.

Managing the default visibility of the toolbar

By following the steps above, you can add the Vercel Toolbar to your production environment. To manage the default visibility of the toolbar for either your team or project, you can use the following methods:

Navigate to your Vercel dashboard and make sure that you have selected your team from the scope selector. To manage the toolbar at the project level, ensure that you have selected the project.
From your dashboard, select the Settings tab.
In the General section, find Vercel Toolbar.
Under each environment (Preview and Production), select either On or Off from the dropdown to determine the visibility of the Vercel Toolbar for that environment.
Once set at the team level, you can optionally choose to allow the setting to be overridden at the project level.

The dashboard setting to enable or disable the toolbar at the team level.

Last updated on July 27, 2024

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