Deploy Node.js to DigitalOcean

Steps

1. 1

   Create a DigitalOcean API token

   In the DigitalOcean control panel, open API and generate a personal access token with read and write access. Paste it into Railyard and tick Save it to the team, so it's reused for every server after this one.

2. 2

   Add a DigitalOcean server

   In Railyard, open Servers, then Add a server, then Create on your cloud, and pick DigitalOcean, a region and a size. Railyard preselects s-1vcpu-2gb (1 vCPU, 2 GB of memory). It creates the server in your DigitalOcean account and installs Docker, Caddy and its agent in about two minutes.

3. 3

   Deploy your Node.js repository

   Paste the GitHub link. Railyard reads the repository, detects Node.js and fills in the build, the port, the release command, workers and Postgres, MySQL or Redis.

4. 4

   Go live on HTTPS

   Railyard builds on a separate build server, runs the release command, health-checks the new version and moves traffic only when it answers. Add your domain and the certificate is issued and renewed for you.

What Railyard sets up for Node.js

• The start script in package.json becomes the web process.
• Your package manager is picked from the lockfile: npm, pnpm, yarn or bun.
• An npm run worker script is offered as a background worker.
• Add a database from the app page and its connection string is injected as a variable.
• Set a release command, such as npx prisma migrate deploy, to run before each release.

DigitalOcean regions

Toronto keeps your data in Canada. Frankfurt and Amsterdam keep it in the EU.

• New York
• San Francisco
• Amsterdam
• Frankfurt
• London
• Toronto
• Singapore
• Bangalore
• Sydney

Questions