Add docs on deploying to Render

[umar-ahmed]

https://render.com/

[R4Rohit23]

@umar-ahmed I would like to work on this documentation task.

[umar-ahmed]

@umar-ahmed I would like to work on this documentation task.

Hey @R4Rohit23 ! That's awesome.

The main thing you'll want to keep in mind is that the deployment really needs to do 4 things:

1. Set environment variables
2. Build the Next.js app
3. Migrate the DB
4. Expose port for web traffic

You can take a look at the template we have for Railway to get an idea.

I haven't used Render myself, so I don't know if it requires a docker image and/or supports volume mounts for sqlite. Maybe you can start by researching that and responding back on this issue 🙂

Thanks again for volunteering!

[R4Rohit23]

@umar-ahmed I don't know about Database migration concepts. I know only about that the Render platform takes Environment variables and connect the pre deployed project on Github to be re-deployed for production.

[umar-ahmed]

@umar-ahmed I don't know about Database migration concepts. I know only about that the Render platform takes Environment variables and connect the pre deployed project on Github to be re-deployed for production.

@R4Rohit23 Is there a way to run an arbitrary command in the terminal? Basically for the database migration, we just need to be able to run yarn db:push before starting the server

[R4Rohit23]

Yes We can do it in package.json file. To deploy any repo to render we need to pass a build command which is the starting point of any production level code. Like below code.

  "build": "npm install && npm install --prefix frontend && npm run build --prefix frontend"

[umar-ahmed]

Nice okay. We do something similar in Railway, but in the start command. So I think this shows Render deployment is viable.

@R4Rohit23 if you can focus on getting it deployed to Render, we can then create a template out of it