Deploy to Railway

Deploy your Next.js application to Railway with PostgreSQL.

Prerequisites#

• GitHub repository
• Railway account

Quick Deploy#

Via Railway Dashboard#

1. Go to railway.app/new
2. Select Deploy from GitHub repo
3. Select your repository
4. Railway auto-detects Next.js and configures build

Via CLI#

Database Setup#

Add PostgreSQL#

Configure Prisma#

Environment Variables#

Railway automatically sets DATABASE_URL when you add PostgreSQL.

Project Configuration#

railway.json#

Nixpacks Configuration#

Environment Variables#

Set Variables via CLI#

Required Variables#

Custom Domain#

Add Domain#

1. Go to project settings
2. Click Settings > Domains
3. Add your custom domain
4. Configure DNS records

DNS Configuration#

Health Check Endpoint#

CI/CD with GitHub Actions#

Multiple Services#

Web + Worker Architecture#

Redis for Queues#

Scaling#

Horizontal Scaling#

In Railway dashboard:

1. Go to service settings
2. Enable Replicas
3. Set number of instances

Vertical Scaling#

Logs and Monitoring#

Database Backups#

Rollback#

Cost Optimization#

Sleep Inactive Services#

In dashboard, enable Sleep for development environments.

Optimize Database#

Related Recipes#

• Vercel
• Docker