Abhishek•11mo ago

Alternate hosting options ?

Hi, I am pretty noob with infra part of software engineering. But I wanted to ask apart from vercel and netlify can convex support hosting on other platforms like railway, render for nextjs and convex app ? thanks

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erquhart•10mo ago

It looks like Railway attempts to automatically detect your build command, somewhat similar to Netlify and Vercel. If you have a next project using convex, you can manually update the command in Railway to use the convex build command that you would use on other services. Docs: https://docs.railway.app/reference/build-and-start-commands Render seems to require the build command to be set at project creation time, and should be able to use the standard convex build command that wraps your next build command. Docs: https://docs.render.com/deploy-nextjs-app

Railway Docs

Build and Start Commands | Railway Docs

Documentation for Railway

Deploy a Next.js App | Render Docs

Deploy a Next.js application on Render in just a few clicks. Served over a lightning-fast global CDN with fully managed TLS certificates out of the box.

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

Thank you @erquhart I will give it a try and share the result So that in future it can help evveryone @erquhart what about aws ? is it possible

erquhart•10mo ago

Depends on how you're using AWS - what service(s) are you thinking of?

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

Amplify or maybe someting like doing next build and through docker file

erquhart•10mo ago

I imagine amplify takes the same kind of build command as the other services, even if it's defined in a docker file. Should work there, too.

Michal Srb•10mo ago

Github Pages are also a free option for hosting

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

I am trying to work with deployment on vercel and getting this error

Running "npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build'"
401 Unauthorized: TokenInvalid: Token failed validation: InvalidComponents
Authenticate with `npx convex dev`
Error: Command "npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build'" exited with 1

Running "npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build'"
401 Unauthorized: TokenInvalid: Token failed validation: InvalidComponents
Authenticate with `npx convex dev`
Error: Command "npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build'" exited with 1

I have already pasted the npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build' command and CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY in env still

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

also in documentation you see the command is

npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build'

npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build'

but in image there is equal to I have tried both the command still the err is coming

ballingt•10mo ago

Without revealing your token (so don't copy and paste it here), what's the general form of your CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY?

Michal Srb•10mo ago

And be sure you are on the latest version of Convex (1.9.1)

ballingt•10mo ago

CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY should look like prod:happy-otter-123|0123456789abcdef... (continues for 98 characters)

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

Thanks @ballingt I was using dev: one So quick doubt if i want to test my app while its deployed then i have to use prod setting ? i mean prod token ?

Michal Srb•10mo ago

Deployment with dev key should work fine. Are you on 1.9.1?

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

Yup

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

Michal Srb•10mo ago

Thanks, I'll have a look Hey @Abhishek, I cannot reproduce the issue, using 1.9.1 and a dev deployment deploy key.

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

@Michal Srb I will try reproducing it and if i succeed will attach video or logs if you need Update : Successfully Deployed on both railway and render

erquhart•10mo ago

Nice! Any notes for future searchers or was it pretty straightforward

AbhishekOP•10mo ago

Yeah pretty forward , just add env variables and override the build command

erquhart•10mo ago

Awesome

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