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Railway is a cloud platform that simplifies deploying backend services, databases, and full-stack applications. It provides one-click provisioning for Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, and other services alongside your application code. Railway automatically detects your framework, builds from a Dockerfile or Nixpacks, and handles networking between services.
Deploy your API server, database, and background workers as a single Railway project with private networking, shared environment variables, and unified logging.
Spin up managed Postgres, Redis, or MongoDB instances in seconds with automatic backups, connection strings injected as environment variables, and one-click scaling.
Run background workers alongside your web server in the same project, communicating via Railway's private network and sharing database connections.
// railway.toml — Railway service configuration// This file configures build and deploy settings for Railway/*[build]builder = "nixpacks"[deploy]startCommand = "node dist/server.js"healthcheckPath = "/health"healthcheckTimeout = 300restartPolicyType = "on_failure"restartPolicyMaxRetries = 5*/// health.ts — Health check endpoint for Railwayimport type { Request, Response } from "express";export function healthCheck(_req: Request, res: Response) {const status = { status: "healthy", uptime: process.uptime(), timestamp: Date.now() };res.json(status);}
Seamless integration, great documentation. Set up in under 10 minutes.
2 days ago
Works well for our use case. Would love to see more webhook event types.
1 week ago
Excellent compliance coverage. HIPAA audit trail works perfectly.
2 weeks ago
| Key | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| RAILWAY_TOKEN | API token for Railway CLI automation | xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx |
Railway is an infrastructure platform that simplifies deploying full-stack applications with one-click database provisioning, automatic builds, and private networking between services. It is the easiest path from local development to production for projects that need both application hosting and managed databases in a single platform.