Deploy Shiny Apps to Railway.app

Clone and deploy this template on Railway:

What is Railway

Infrastructure, Instantly

Develop code in a cloud that feels local. When you're ready, deploy from anywhere

https://railway.app/

Setup

Following the Railway.io docs: https://docs.railway.app/. Inside this project, cd starter.

Step 1. Install railway CLI https://docs.railway.app/cli/installation

Step 2. Sign up or sign in and go to your dashboard https://railway.app/dashboard (you can sign up with email or with your GitHub account)

You might have to verify your account (promise not to do anything fishy)

Step 3. Log in with railway login and follow the prompts

Step 4. Create a new project

4a Option 1: In your dashboard, create a new Empty Project

You'll be presented with a project ID, e.g. a4dd399d-494e-4b2f-944a-ebc05be245df

Link to this project using CLI (copy from dashboard settings)

export ID="a4dd399d-494e-4b2f-944a-ebc05be245df"
railway link $ID

4b Option 2: use CLI, select Empty Project

railway init

Step 5. Add your project to the folder

If you have a Dockerfile in your project directory, you can just run railway run with no arguments to build and run the Dockerfile.

As in Heroku, you need the PORT variable: https://docs.railway.app/deployment/up

You'll see something like:

🎉 Built railway-local/hot-rainstorm-production:latest
🚂 Running at 127.0.0.1:4411

Follow the link and test the app. Ctrl+C to kill.

Step 6. Deploy your app:

railway up

The assigned *.up.railway.app domain times out instantly: https://feedback.railway.app/bug-reports/p/websocket-issue

Custom domain is supposed to work https://docs.railway.app/deployment/custom-domains

Step 7. Custom domain

1. Select the environment and enter your domain name
2. Add the CNAME record to the DNS settings for your domain
3. Wait for Railway to verify your CNAME record

Once a custom domain has been correctly configured, Railway will automatically generate and apply a Let's Encrypt certificate.

Starter Plan Project Limits

Stater plans are designed to help you evaluate Railway and are fit for hobbyist projects. You get access to all features on Railway and you have no limits to the amount of projects you can provision.

Starter plans get $5 of credits that do not accumulate.