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How to deploy in minutes with LingCode

Get from local code to a live URL in under five minutes. No YAML, no dashboards — just paste a token or SSH target and let LingCode do the rest.

Why deploy from the editor?

Most AI coding tools stop at code. You still have to open a browser, log into Vercel or Netlify, connect a repo, set env vars, and trigger a deploy. LingCode’s Magic Deploy keeps you in the editor: paste your credential once, and every deploy is one click.

Step 1: Open your project in LingCode

Open the folder that contains your app (e.g. a Next.js, React, or static site). Make sure you’ve got something deployable — built assets or a framework the platform can build.

Step 2: Open Magic Deploy

Click the Deploy button in the toolbar (or status bar). The Magic Deploy popover opens. You’ll see a single field: Paste your deployment credential.

Step 3: Paste the right credential

What you paste depends on where you’re deploying:

  • Vercel — Paste a Vercel API token (from vercel.com/account/tokens). LingCode will create or link a project and deploy.
  • Netlify — Paste a Netlify personal access token and, if needed, a Site ID. LingCode deploys to that site.
  • Fly.io / Railway / Heroku — Use the token or CLI auth the platform provides; LingCode detects the format and runs the right deploy.
  • SSH (VPS, DigitalOcean, etc.) — Paste user@host (e.g. root@167.99.123.45). If your key is in ~/.ssh/, no password is needed. Otherwise add a password when prompted.
  • AWS EC2 — Paste ec2-user@ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.compute.amazonaws.com (or your AMI’s user). When LingCode detects EC2, it will ask you to select the .pem key file you downloaded from AWS. Select it and deploy.

Step 4: Click deploy

With the credential in place, click the main deploy button. LingCode will detect the platform, run the right commands (e.g. build, then deploy), and show you the live URL when it’s done. For SSH/EC2, you can review or edit the deploy script before it runs.

Tips for the fastest deploy

  • Use Magic Install first if your project needs npm install or pip install — get dependencies in place, then deploy.
  • For Vercel/Netlify, create the token once and keep it somewhere handy; you only need to paste it the first time per project (or per machine).
  • For SSH, ensure your server has Node (or your runtime) installed if the deploy script runs a build on the server.

Ready to try? Download LingCode for Mac and open your project.