railway run yarn run develop
This example deploys self-hosted version of Strapi. Internally it uses a PostgreSQL database to store the data.
- Strapi
- Postgres
- Click the Railway button 👆
- Add the environment variables
- If you choose not to add the Cloudinary related environment variables, your media will not be persisted between deploys.
When developing locally this Strapi template will connect to the Postgres server from its public TCP Proxy
- Enable the feature flag
Template Service Eject
in the Feature Flags menu - Within the service settings of the Strapi service click the
Eject
button on the upstream repository - Clone that newly created repository locally
- Install Strapi's dependencies with
yarn install
ornpm install
- Install the Railway CLI
- Instructions for that can be found here
- If this is your first time using the CLI make sure to login with
railway login
- Within the local repository run
railway link
to link the local repository to the Strapi service on Railway - Start Strapi for development with
railway run yarn run develop
orrailway run npm run develop
- This command will run Strapi in development mode with the service variables available locally
- Open your browser to
http://127.0.0.1:1337/admin
- After your app is deployed, visit the
/admin
endpoint to create your admin user. - Railway's filesystem is ephemeral which is why any changes to the filesystem are not persisted between deploys. This is why, this template uses Cloudinary for media storage.
- If you want to use npm with this project make sure you delete the
yarn.lock
file after you have rannpm install