@knowcode/doc-builder 1.0.5 → 1.0.7

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,45 @@ All notable changes to @knowcode/doc-builder will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [1.0.7] - 2025-01-19
+
+### Added
+- New `reset-vercel` command to fix deployment issues
+- Pre-deployment warning about Root Directory settings
+- Automatic detection of "html/html does not exist" error with clear fix instructions
+- Visual deployment status with project information
+- Better error messages that extract and show the settings URL
+
+### Improved
+- Enhanced error handling with specific instructions for Root Directory issues
+- Clear visual separation for deployment warnings
+- More prominent pre-deployment checks
+- Direct links to Vercel project settings
+
+### Fixed
+- Better handling of the common "html/html" path error
+- Clearer recovery instructions when deployment fails
+
+## [1.0.6] - 2025-01-19
+
+### Added
+- Much more prominent and helpful Vercel setup instructions
+- Step-by-step visual guide with numbered steps and emojis
+- Warning about common "username/html" project linking mistake
+- Detection and warning for existing project deployments
+- Comprehensive troubleshooting for "html/html does not exist" error
+- Clear instructions for fixing Root Directory settings
+
+### Improved
+- Enhanced visual formatting for Vercel prompts with boxes and colors
+- Added critical warnings about NOT linking to generic "html" projects
+- Better error detection and user guidance
+- More helpful project settings URLs
+
+### Fixed
+- Updated vercel.json to use empty strings instead of false values
+- Added installCommand to vercel.json for better compatibility
+
 ## [1.0.5] - 2025-01-19
 
 ### Fixed

package/cli.js

@@ -185,6 +185,24 @@ ${chalk.yellow('Troubleshooting:')}
   • ${chalk.cyan('Command not found:')} Install Vercel CLI globally
   • ${chalk.cyan('Not authenticated:')} Run ${chalk.gray('vercel login')}
   • ${chalk.cyan('Project not linked:')} Delete ${chalk.gray('.vercel')} folder and redeploy
+  
+  ${chalk.red.bold('• Path "html/html" does not exist error:')}
+    ${chalk.yellow('This happens when Vercel has the wrong Root Directory setting.')}
+    
+    ${chalk.green('Fix:')}
+    1. Go to your Vercel project settings
+    2. Under "Build & Development Settings"
+    3. Set "Root Directory" to ${chalk.yellow.bold('empty (leave blank)')}
+    4. Save and redeploy
+    
+  ${chalk.red.bold('• Linked to wrong project (username/html):')}
+    ${chalk.yellow('Never link to the generic "html" project!')}
+    
+    ${chalk.green('Fix:')}
+    1. Delete the ${chalk.gray('html/.vercel')} folder
+    2. Run deployment again
+    3. When asked "Link to existing project?" say ${chalk.red.bold('NO')}
+    4. Create a new project with your actual name
 `)
   .action(async (options) => {
     const spinner = ora('Deploying to Vercel...').start();
@@ -254,6 +272,48 @@ ${chalk.yellow('Troubleshooting:')}
     }
   });
 
+// Reset command for Vercel issues
+program
+  .command('reset-vercel')
+  .description('Reset Vercel configuration (fixes common deployment issues)')
+  .option('-c, --config <path>', 'path to config file (default: doc-builder.config.js)')
+  .addHelpText('after', `
+${chalk.yellow('What this does:')}
+  • Removes .vercel folder from your output directory
+  • Lets you set up a fresh Vercel project
+  • Fixes "html/html does not exist" errors
+  • Fixes wrong project linking issues
+
+${chalk.yellow('When to use:')}
+  • After "html/html does not exist" error
+  • When linked to wrong project (e.g., username/html)
+  • When Root Directory settings are incorrect
+`)
+  .action(async (options) => {
+    try {
+      const config = await loadConfig(options.config || 'doc-builder.config.js', options);
+      const outputPath = path.join(process.cwd(), config.outputDir || 'html');
+      const vercelPath = path.join(outputPath, '.vercel');
+      
+      if (fs.existsSync(vercelPath)) {
+        console.log(chalk.yellow('🗑️  Removing .vercel folder from ' + config.outputDir + '...'));
+        fs.removeSync(vercelPath);
+        console.log(chalk.green('✅ Vercel configuration reset!'));
+        console.log(chalk.gray('\nNow run deployment again:'));
+        console.log(chalk.cyan('  npx @knowcode/doc-builder deploy'));
+        console.log(chalk.gray('\nThis time:'));
+        console.log(chalk.gray('• Create a NEW project (not username/html)'));
+        console.log(chalk.gray('• Use a descriptive name like "my-docs"'));
+        console.log(chalk.gray('• Leave Root Directory EMPTY'));
+      } else {
+        console.log(chalk.gray('No .vercel folder found. Ready for fresh deployment!'));
+      }
+    } catch (error) {
+      console.error(chalk.red(error.message));
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+  });
+
 // Init command
 program
   .command('init')

package/lib/deploy.js

@@ -59,23 +59,41 @@ async function setupVercelProject(config) {
   }
   
   // Create vercel.json for static site
+  // Use empty string instead of false to avoid Vercel issues
   const vercelConfig = {
-    buildCommand: false,
+    buildCommand: "",
     outputDirectory: ".",
+    installCommand: "",
     framework: null
   };
   
   fs.writeJsonSync(vercelConfigPath, vercelConfig, { spaces: 2 });
   console.log(chalk.green(`✅ Created vercel.json in ${config.outputDir || 'html'} directory`));
   
-  // Run Vercel setup
-  console.log(chalk.blue('\n🔗 Linking to Vercel...\n'));
-  console.log(chalk.yellow('📝 Vercel will now ask additional questions:\n'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('• Set up and deploy? → Yes'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('• Which scope? → Select your account'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('• Link to existing? → No (first time)'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('• Project name? → ' + answers.projectName));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('• Override settings? → No\n'));
+  // Run Vercel setup with prominent instructions
+  console.log(chalk.blue('\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━'));
+  console.log(chalk.blue('🔗 Linking to Vercel - IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS'));
+  console.log(chalk.blue('━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n'));
+  
+  console.log(chalk.yellow('⚠️  FOLLOW THESE ANSWERS CAREFULLY:\n'));
+  
+  console.log(chalk.white('1️⃣  ') + chalk.green('Set up "~/Documents/.../html"?'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('   👉 Answer: ') + chalk.yellow.bold('YES') + '\n');
+  
+  console.log(chalk.white('2️⃣  ') + chalk.green('Which scope should contain your project?'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('   👉 Answer: ') + chalk.yellow.bold('Select your account') + ' (usually your username)\n');
+  
+  console.log(chalk.white('3️⃣  ') + chalk.green('Found project "username/html". Link to it?'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('   👉 Answer: ') + chalk.red.bold('NO') + ' (this is NOT your project!)\n');
+  
+  console.log(chalk.white('4️⃣  ') + chalk.green('Link to different existing project?'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('   👉 Answer: ') + chalk.yellow.bold('YES') + ' if you have an existing project');
+  console.log(chalk.white('   👉 Answer: ') + chalk.yellow.bold('NO') + ' to create new project\n');
+  
+  console.log(chalk.white('5️⃣  ') + chalk.green('What\'s the name of your existing project?'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('   👉 Answer: ') + chalk.yellow.bold(answers.projectName) + ' (your actual project name)\n');
+  
+  console.log(chalk.blue('━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n'));
   
   try {
     // Run vercel link from the output directory
@@ -90,11 +108,18 @@ async function setupVercelProject(config) {
   
   // Important reminders for Vercel settings
   console.log(chalk.yellow('\n⚠️  IMPORTANT: Vercel Project Settings\n'));
-  console.log(chalk.white('After deployment, go to your Vercel dashboard and:'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('1. Navigate to Project Settings > General'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('2. Under "Security", find "Deployment Protection"'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('3. Set "Deployment Protection" to "Disabled" for public access'));
-  console.log(chalk.gray('4. Or configure authentication if you want to keep it private'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('After deployment, go to your Vercel dashboard:'));
+  console.log();
+  console.log(chalk.red.bold('🔴 CRITICAL: Check Root Directory Setting'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('1. Go to: ') + chalk.cyan(`https://vercel.com/${answers.projectName}/settings`));
+  console.log(chalk.white('2. Under "Build & Development Settings"'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('3. Make sure "Root Directory" is ') + chalk.yellow.bold('EMPTY or "./"'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('   (NOT "html" or any other directory)'));
+  console.log();
+  console.log(chalk.yellow('🔐 For Public Access:'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('1. Navigate to Project Settings > General'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('2. Under "Security", find "Deployment Protection"'));
+  console.log(chalk.white('3. Set "Deployment Protection" to ') + chalk.yellow.bold('Disabled'));
   console.log();
   console.log(chalk.cyan('Dashboard URL: https://vercel.com/dashboard'));
   console.log();
@@ -120,12 +145,43 @@ async function deployToVercel(config, isProd = false) {
     throw new Error(`Output directory ${outputPath} does not exist. Run 'doc-builder build' first.`);
   }
   
+  // Check for existing project link and warn about common issues
+  const vercelProjectPath = path.join(outputPath, '.vercel', 'project.json');
+  if (fs.existsSync(vercelProjectPath)) {
+    try {
+      const projectInfo = fs.readJsonSync(vercelProjectPath);
+      const projectId = projectInfo.projectId || 'unknown';
+      
+      console.log(chalk.blue('\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━'));
+      console.log(chalk.yellow('📦 Deploying to existing Vercel project'));
+      console.log(chalk.blue('━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\n'));
+      
+      console.log(chalk.white('Project ID: ') + chalk.cyan(projectId));
+      
+      // Check if .vercel/project.json has rootDirectory set
+      if (projectInfo.settings && projectInfo.settings.rootDirectory) {
+        console.log(chalk.red.bold('\n⚠️  WARNING: Root Directory is set to: ') + chalk.yellow(projectInfo.settings.rootDirectory));
+        console.log(chalk.red('This may cause deployment to fail!\n'));
+      }
+      
+      console.log(chalk.yellow.bold('\n⚡ BEFORE CONTINUING:'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('1. Check your Root Directory setting at:'));
+      console.log(chalk.cyan(`   https://vercel.com/dashboard/project/${projectId}`));
+      console.log(chalk.white('2. Root Directory should be ') + chalk.green.bold('EMPTY (blank)'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('3. If it says "html", ') + chalk.red.bold('DELETE IT NOW!\n'));
+      
+    } catch (e) {
+      // Ignore read errors
+    }
+  }
+  
   // Create vercel.json in output directory for deployment
   const vercelConfigPath = path.join(outputPath, 'vercel.json');
   if (!fs.existsSync(vercelConfigPath)) {
     const vercelConfig = {
-      buildCommand: false,
+      buildCommand: "",
       outputDirectory: ".",
+      installCommand: "",
       framework: null
     };
     fs.writeJsonSync(vercelConfigPath, vercelConfig, { spaces: 2 });
@@ -147,6 +203,23 @@ async function deployToVercel(config, isProd = false) {
     
     return deployUrl;
   } catch (error) {
+    // Check if this is the common "html/html" path error
+    if (error.message && error.message.includes('html/html') && error.message.includes('does not exist')) {
+      console.log(chalk.red.bold('\n❌ ERROR: Vercel has incorrect Root Directory settings!\n'));
+      console.log(chalk.yellow('The project is configured with Root Directory = "html"'));
+      console.log(chalk.yellow('But we are already deploying FROM the html directory.\n'));
+      
+      console.log(chalk.green.bold('🔧 TO FIX THIS:\n'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('1. Go to: ') + chalk.cyan(error.message.match(/https:\/\/vercel\.com\/[^\s]+/)?.[0] || 'https://vercel.com/dashboard'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('2. Find "Root Directory" under "Build & Development Settings"'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('3. ') + chalk.yellow.bold('DELETE the "html" value (leave it EMPTY)'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('4. Click "Save"'));
+      console.log(chalk.white('5. Run this command again\n'));
+      
+      console.log(chalk.gray('Alternative: Delete html/.vercel folder and set up fresh'));
+      
+      throw new Error('Root Directory misconfiguration - see instructions above');
+    }
     throw new Error(`Vercel deployment failed: ${error.message}`);
   }
 }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@knowcode/doc-builder",
-  "version": "1.0.5",
+  "version": "1.0.7",
   "description": "Reusable documentation builder for markdown-based sites with Vercel deployment support",
   "main": "index.js",
   "bin": {