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Recipe

Railway Deploy Primer

Ship Meridian to Railway in under five minutes with zero cold starts and automatic HTTPS.

Prerequisites

  • A Railway account (GitHub sign-in supported)
  • Your Meridian project pushed to a GitHub repo
  • Environment variables ready (see .env.example)

Step 1 — New Project

From the Railway dashboard, click New Project → Deploy from GitHub repo and select your Meridian repository.

Step 2 — Configure

Railway auto-detects Next.js. Set the build command to npm run build and start command to npm start. Paste your environment variables under the Variables tab.

Step 3 — Deploy

Railway builds and deploys automatically. Once the deploy finishes, click Generate Domain under Settings → Networking to get your public HTTPS URL.

Custom Domain

Add your domain under Settings → Custom Domains. Point your DNS CNAME record to the Railway-provided domain. SSL certificates are provisioned automatically via Let's Encrypt.

Need help? Check the full documentation or reach out on Discord.