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Deploy to a Server on Render.com

  1. Add one of the render.yaml files shown below
  2. Push code to your github repo
  3. Log in to Render.com
  4. Click on the "YAML" menu item, then click the "New from YAML" button
  5. Connect your github account then select your blitz app repo
  6. Click approve
  7. Go to "Services", click on your new Blitz service, click on "Environment"
  8. Click "Add Environment Variable", enter SESSION_SECRET_KEY as the name, then click on the "generate" button in the value field. Then click save.
  9. Your server + database will be automatically configured and started. Each git push will trigger a new deploy

Without database:

Use this render.yaml:

services:
  - type: web
    name: blitzapp
    env: node
    plan: starter
    buildCommand: yarn --frozen-lockfile --prod=false && blitz build
    startCommand: blitz start
    envVars:
      - key: NODE_ENV
        value: production

With Postgres database:

Update your render.yaml to provide the DATABASE_URL environment variable to connect to your database:

services:
  - type: web
    name: blitzapp
    env: node
    plan: starter
    buildCommand:
      yarn --frozen-lockfile --prod=false &&
      blitz build &&
      blitz prisma migrate deploy --preview-feature
    startCommand: blitz start
    envVars:
      - key: NODE_ENV
        value: production
      - key: DATABASE_URL
        fromDatabase:
          name: blitzapp-db
          property: connectionString

databases:
  - name: blitzapp-db
    plan: starter

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