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Railwayβ€’15mo ago
BIROALTACC

Can't deploy my mern app

Hi, just bought railway subscription to deploy my mern app. I used everything I used to deploy my site on render.com and it doesn't work on railway. I'm new into deploying websites so I'll just post 2 screenshots of my problem since I really don't know what am I doing. Thanks!
18 Replies
Percy
Percyβ€’15mo ago
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Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
1. your frontend build has warnings, warnings are treated as errors, thus your build fails, please resolve the warnings. 2. please do not use nodemon on railway, nodemon in a production environment causes instabilities and uses extra unnecessary resources.
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
1. Should I resolve every warning? there's about 50 of them? 2. Alright, do I need to uninstall nodemon from my project before deploying it to railway or is there a way to disable it only for deployment?
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
1. in an ideal world, yes, you would have no warnings, if you don't want to do that though, you can set a service variable CI = false to keep the warnings from causing the build to fail. 2. just don't use nodemon in your start script, nodemon index.js -> node index.js
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
Alright, thanks man.
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
in the interest of getting your app running smoothly on railway, how are you serving your frontend app?
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
I don't understand what "serving" means
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
fair enough, send me the start scripts section of your frontends package.json please
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
"scripts": { "start": "react-scripts start", "build": "react-scripts build", "test": "react-scripts test", "eject": "react-scripts eject" }, this?
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
yeah, unfortunately that start script is super not ideal for running your site in a production environment like railway
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
what do you recommend? I mean my app is only for my portfolio, there won't be any users using that site. I only bought railway, because I want my site to up all the time, on render.com site works but everytime you open it server starts and there's a delay of 1min atleast for content to show up The only thing that matters is that site is always on
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
the default start script you see there starts a development server, you absolutely don't want to run a development server on railway, slow, costly, unstable, etc I will be working on an example repo shortly that demonstrates how to properly run a react/vite app on railway in one of the most efficiently ways possible, think you can wait? lol
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
Right, I mean I can wait, but I definitely want my site up and running, because I want to start applying for jobs. I will deploy my site and then when you finish doing that example repo, I'll do it correctly just let me know where will that be posted I can also google that, will do that now about not running development server Just one more question I put this "CI = false" into my frontend -> variables CI is variable name and false is value rightT?
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
the Google results will unfortunately not give you a straight forward best approach answer unfortunately I also wouldn't recommend applying to jobs with a website running in development mode seems correct to me, show me a screenshot so I can be sure
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
Right, well at least I know now about not deploying my sites running in development mode, thanks for that All good man, site is up and running now thanks for the help, just let me know where i'll be able to see that example you're working on here on discord or?
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
ill send you a link to the repo shortly
BIROALTACC
BIROALTACCβ€’15mo ago
Alright, thanks man! I really appreciate fast help you saved me a lot of trouble and headaches!
Brody
Brodyβ€’15mo ago
no problem πŸ™‚ here's the newly updated repo https://github.com/brody192/create-react-app-starter it uses caddy to serve the react app, please read through the readme. basically all you should have to do is copy the nixpacks.toml and Caddyfile into your project and push the changes
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