Please don't set the install command in the build command field, that's not quite how it works, remove that custom build command, then add this nixpacks.toml file to your project -

[phases.install]
  cmds = ['npm install --legacy-peer-deps']

But ideally, you would properly fix the peer dependency issue(s).

Got it thank you, would I just remove the other files and then create a new file nixpacks.toml with just that code only?

Other files?

It also looks like you are going to be running a development server on Railway, if so, that is going to be costly and unstable.

Ah sorry nevermind, so I put in the nixpacks.toml file to the root of my project and getting a different error now!

[Region: us-west1]

==============

Using Nixpacks

==============

context: fc029cd89429944b9ded3d01d0587c58

╔══════════════ Nixpacks v1.21.2 ═════════════╗

║ setup │ nodejs18, npm-8x ║

║─────────────────────────────────────────────║

║ install │ npm install --legacy-peer-deps ║

║─────────────────────────────────────────────║

║ build │ npm run build ║

║─────────────────────────────────────────────║

║ release │ npm run db:import ║

║─────────────────────────────────────────────║

║ start │ npm start ║

╚═════════════════════════════════════════════╝

0 building with "default" instance using docker driver

1 [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile

1 transferring dockerfile: 2.33kB done

1 DONE 0.0s

2 [internal] load metadata for ghcr.io/railwayapp/nixpacks:ubuntu-1707782610

2 DONE 0.3s

3 [stage-0 1/10] FROM ghcr.io/railwayapp/nixpacks:ubuntu-1707782610@sha256:8f4b0fd95dc3311cf9a59f236d8d7d7f956fe21a2a1d64b53c82f12c4e859f09

3 DONE 0.0s

4 [internal] load .dockerignore

4 transferring context: 2B done

4 DONE 0.0s

5 [internal] load build context

5 transferring context: 4.72MB 0.0s done

5 DONE 0.1s

6 [stage-0 2/10] WORKDIR /app/

6 CACHED

7 [stage-0 3/12] COPY .nixpacks/nixpkgs-bf744fe90419885eefced41b3e5ae442d732712d.nix .nixpacks/nixpkgs-bf744fe90419885eefced41b3e5ae442d732712d.nix

7 CACHED

8 [stage-0 4/12] RUN nix-env -if .nixpacks/nixpkgs-bf744fe90419885eefced41b3e5ae442d732712d.nix && nix-collect-garbage -d

8 CACHED

9 [stage-0 5/12] COPY . /app/.

9 DONE 0.0s

10 [stage-0 6/12] RUN --mount=type=cache,id=s/5af59353-ef55-4c93-a4da-822c382cdcdc-/root/npm,target=/root/.npm npm install --legacy-peer-deps

10 0.603 npm

WARN config production Use --omit=dev instead.

10 5.251 npm WARN deprecated querystring@0.2.0: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.

10 …

6 [stage-0 2/10] WORKDIR /app/

6 CACHED

10 [stage-0 6/12] RUN --mount=type=cache,id=s/5af59353-ef55-4c93-a4da-822c382cdcdc-/root/npm,target=/root/.npm npm install --legacy-peer-deps

It also looks like you are going to be running a development server on Railway, that is going to be costly and unstable.

Oh really hmm I am new to Railway and wanted to deploy my full stack web application for project deployment for my resume. What could I adjust do you have any fixes? I really appreciate the help!

There is no error there, please attach your build logs using this -

https://bookmarklets.up.railway.app/log-downloader/

As for the if you are running a development server or how not to run a development server, I would need to see your GitHub Repository in order to give you an accurate answer.

Ah sure ok! Attached the log - something about
"ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/bash -ol pipefail -c npm run db:import" did not complete successfully: exit code: 127

Error: Docker build failed"

Here is my Repository - https://github.com/matt-cha/plan-it

Try this nixpacks.toml file instead -

[phases.setup]
  nixPkgs = ['...', 'postgresql']

[phases.install]
  cmds = ['npm install --legacy-peer-deps']

Disclaimer: untested.

Sending the new log I got after adding that code. Studying it myself right now as well thank you brody!

Perhaps you need to do a whitelist on azure? you would need to whitelist 0.0.0.0/0

Or, why not run your Postgres database on Railway?

Right I'm thinking to move over completely from Azure as my free trial is running out soon. How would I run my PostgreSQL database on Railway instead now too?

Click that + New button in the top right of your project canvas, self explanatory from there!

Then you can update your DATABASE_URL service variable to ${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}

Your trial on Railway will run out eventually too, I hope you won't jump ship when that time comes.

Ah cool! Is that the only thing I need to change on the Variables tab of the Postgres page?

I think Railway and Vercel is a lot easier to manage so hoping to stick with this one haha

Please don't change anything in the databases variable tab, that variable is to be set on your apps service.

Ah got it, I see it now in my .env.prod file on visual studio

Please don't put it in the .env.prod file either, that variable is to be set on Railway in your apps service.

Forsure, just the .env file in my code then

Nope, as previously mentioned, that variable is only to be set in the apps service in Railway.

AH understood so sorry, the service variables of the app on Railway.

Thanks for being patient I appreciate it I haven't worked on this deployment in quite some time

Do you mind explaining the costs to me of and what is the development server? I was thinking the only thing to host would be the backend for the data saved as an "event" but it'd be pretty small and wouldn't take much memory so it wouldn't be expensive to host on Railway

Look at your metrics tab, how much memory is it using?

I see yes 49MB !

Then that doesn't seem like a development server, you should be good in that regard.

Thank you! I'm getting this message now in the deployment logs of Postgres.

On my web app link it seems the database isn't running yet either and some errors in the console. Would possibly be able to help with this? I can create a new thread as I know it's a completely separate topic now
https://plan-it-matt-cha.vercel.app/

Red doesn't always mean error, there are no errors there.

Ah forsure, what would be the next step in identifying what is causing this error on the web app? I'm trying to attach a screenshot if its showing of the console error

https://imgur.com/a/RNBZtVB

As you can see there, your frontend is trying to make an API call to its own domain.

I appreciate the help a lot brody, I'll have to sign off for today and get back on trying to fix this tomorrow! I can't understand why the GET request isn't working on this deployed page now

It's not working because the frontend is making a GET request to the frontend's domain.

I'm using React Router Dom to navigate and it was working previously like this on my Azure deployed site and Heroku before that, do I need to change this now? I appreciate the really novice questions brody!

Your frontend needs to make a request to the domain you have on your Railway service.

By making the request to the domain of the Railway service is this what you mean brody? the GET request to https://plan-it.up.railway.app/api/events

Yes but if you are running your full stack app on Railway, why does vercel even come into play here?

Ah I see you're right I had looked into Vercel and Railway from a friend telling me to deploy on Vercel and then using Railway for the backend but I would only need one then you're right!

But using that get request URL, it's still not working as intended as the /events URL doesn't work but creating a new event does (example: https://plan-it.up.railway.app/events/2

Do you have a GET route for /api/events ?

I had this get route but I changed to the domain of the Railway service like you mentioned yesterday

Not quite what I mean, you need the same route in your server code to handle returning all the created events.

Aplologies, that was the server code - the GET request

The client side fetches in the useEffect in this screenshot

Client side here:

Okay then there was some confusion here, last night I told you to have your frontend call the back's domain, but you seemed to change the path in your backend code as well, please change the path in the backend code back to just /api/events

Got it! How can i also reset the data in my tables on Railway? I want to purge the created events I was making to test the data

I would recommend deploying dbgate into your project and using that to delete data from the database.

+ New -> Template -> Search for dbGate

Thanks so much brody, i'm looking into it now and will get back to you if I have questions! the page routing seems to be working now as well having the Railway domain for the client side URL's

Awesome!