Deploying Rebase on Railway

Railway is an incredibly popular modern PaaS (Platform as a Service) that takes the pain out of DevOps. It will automatically detect the Rebase Node framework and build it seamlessly.

Additionally, Railway fully supports European deployment regions (Amsterdam), meaning you still enjoy strict regional hosting compliance.

1. Create a Project & EU Region

1. Login to your Railway Account.
2. Click New Project.
3. Go to Settings -> Default Region, and explicitly set it to Europe (Amsterdam). (If you do this after creating services, you may need to manually migrate them).

2. Provision PostgreSQL

1. Inside your project, click New -> Database -> Add PostgreSQL.
2. Wait a few seconds for the database to provision.
3. By default, Railway provides an internal DATABASE_URL variable. Click on the Postgres widget -> Variables to locate this connection string.

3. Deploy Rebase Code

1. Click New -> GitHub Repo.
2. Select your Rebase repository.
3. Railway will immediately detect the repository and look for a Dockerfile. Wait for the initial build to begin.

4. Set Environment Variables

The initial build might fail because it is entirely missing configuration. Let’s fix that.

1. Click on the new Rebase GitHub service card.
2. Go to the Variables tab.
3. Click New Variable and add:
   • JWT_SECRET: Generate a secure 32+ character random string.
   • NODE_ENV: Set to production
4. Click Reference Variable and select DATABASE_URL from the PostgreSQL service you provisioned. Railway will securely inject the internal Postgres URL at runtime.

5. Expose the Domain

1. In the Rebase service card, navigate to the Settings tab.
2. Scroll down to Networking.
3. Under Public Networking, click Generate Domain. Railway will provide a .up.railway.app testing URL. You can also securely attach a Custom Domain here.

Railway will automatically rebuild safely. Your EU-hosted platform is now entirely live!