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Get Started with Railway
Quick Summary
“Infrastructure, simplified”
Best for: Developers who want Heroku-like simplicity with modern infrastructure, auto-deployments, and built-in Postgres/Redis
Time to first integration: 10 minutes
📋Prerequisites
- ✓Node.js 18+ installed
- ✓A Railway account — sign up here
- ✓An existing project (Next.js, React, or Node.js recommended)
Setup Steps
4 steps1
1
Install the CLI
Install the Railway CLI globally.
bash
npm i -g @railway/cli2
2
Log in and init
Authenticate and initialize a project.
bash
railway login
railway init3
3
Deploy
Deploy your app to Railway.
bash
railway up4
4
Provision a database
Add a database service and configure env vars in the dashboard.
bash
railway addRelated Guides
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