Strapi example

This example deploys self-hosted version of Strapi. Internally it uses a PostgreSQL database to store the data.

✨ Features

• Strapi
• Postgres

💁‍♀️ How to use

• 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.

💻 Developing locally

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 or npm 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 or railway 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

📝 Notes

• 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 ran npm install