Railway

Railway is a good fit for Git-connected app hosting, managed databases, and teams that want platform-managed services without writing much infrastructure code.

Create with Railway config

npm create better-fullstack@latest my-app -- \
  --frontend next \
  --backend hono \
  --runtime node \
  --database postgres \
  --orm drizzle \
  --web-deploy railway \
  --server-deploy railway

Better Fullstack emits Railway config and Dockerfiles for supported web and server templates.

Environment setup

Configure production environment variables in Railway before deploying:

• Database connection strings.
• Auth secrets and public callback URLs.
• Provider keys for email, payments, AI, storage, search, or observability.

Railway can host managed databases, but generated projects still need migrations to run against the selected production database.