Deploy on Railway

Let's deploy your app on Railway 🚀

You have two options to deploy your app on Railway...

• Use the One-click deploy if you're just starting out.
• Or follow the GitHub Repo steps if you’ve already started building your app.

One-click deploy mellow-vue

Simply click the button, and Railway will set up everything you need to get your new app live using the mellow-vue Railway template.

This template includes:

• Mellow Vue: The Boring Stack Mellow template with Vue.js.
• PostgreSQL: A pre-configured PostgreSQL database.
• Redis: A pre-configured Redis instance.

One-click deploy mellow-react

Simply click the button, and Railway will set up everything you need to get your new app live using the mellow-react Railway template.

This template includes:

• Mellow React: The Boring Stack Mellow template with React.js.
• PostgreSQL: A pre-configured PostgreSQL database.
• Redis: A pre-configured Redis instance.

One-click deploy mellow-svelte

Simply click the button, and Railway will set up everything you need to get your new app live using the mellow-svelte Railway template.

This template includes:

• Mellow Svelte: The Boring Stack Mellow template with Svelte.js.
• PostgreSQL: A pre-configured PostgreSQL database.
• Redis: A pre-configured Redis instance.

GitHub Repo

Push your app to a repo on GitHub.

Create database

Create the database you want to use for production on Railway and take note of the connection url.

Database creation guides

See guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and, MongoDB on the Railway docs.

Create Redis instance

Create the production Redis instance and take note of the connection url.

Redis instance guide

See the guide to create a Redis instance on the Railway docs.

Set up database

Depending on the database you want to use for production, set up that adapter in config/environment/production.js

PostgreSQL

module.exports = {
  datastores: {
    default: {
      adapter: 'sails-postgresql',
      url: process.env.DATABASE_URL
    }
  }
}

MySQL

module.exports = {
  datastores: {
    default: {
      adapter: 'sails-mysql',
      url: process.env.DATABASE_URL
    }
  }
}

MongoDB

module.exports = {
  datastores: {
    default: {
      adapter: 'sails-mongo',
      url: process.env.DATABASE_URL
    }
  }
}

WARNING

Don't forget to install the adapter if you haven't already. See the database docs for more info.

Set up Redis

INFO

Create a new Redis instance on Railway by following the Railway docs.

Set up the Redis adapter in config/environment/production.js

module.exports = {
  session: {
    secret: process.env.REDIS_SECRET
    adapter: '@sailshq/connect-redis',
    url: process.env.REDIS_URL
  }
}

Create a web service

Create a new Web Service on Railway, and give Railway permission to access the repo of your app.

If necessary, use the following values during creation:

• Runtime: Node
• Build command: npm i
• Start command: npm start

However, Railway is capable of configuring things automatically for you.

Set environment variables

Add the following evironment variables to your web service:

• DATABASE_URL: This should point to the connection string of the database you created.
• REDIS_URL: This should point to the connection string to the Redis instance you created.
• SESSION_SECRET: A unique production session secret to override the one in config/session.js.

That’s it! Your app will be live on your Railway URL as soon as the build finishes 🎉

Celebrate with a ⭐

Star The Boring JavaScript Stack repo on GitHub ⭐

Let's celebrate deploying your app on Railway by giving The Boring JavaScript Stack a star on GitHub.