Is this open-source?

2 years ago

Is this website open-source by any chance?

2 Replies

2 years ago

I dont think so.


2 years ago

Hi! It is not open source. We’ve discussed whether open sourcing this makes sense, and I’m personally leaning towards “yes, but not anytime soon”

It’s a pretty huge undertaking for us because:

  • It integrates tightly with the core railway.app system, and there’s no way for us to safely expose this to the public at the moment

  • It’s impossible to set up a dev environment for non-Railway employees because of the above; it’d be tough to contribute if you can’t test your changes locally

  • There’s practically no way to stand this up alone unless you remove all the Railway-specific parts, or until we generalize them to the point where you can, for example, plug in your own auth system

So IMO, there’s very little practical benefits to us open sourcing this in its current form, except having it as a study on how we built this.

Would love to hear what you’re looking to get out of us open sourcing this!


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