Has anyone deployed a SPA application with GraphQL API? Like RedwoodJS

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Hi there,

I am exploring Fly.io because my application built with redwoodJS needs to support wildcard domains to host customer portal at *.mydomain.com and eventually allow them to connect something.theirdomain.com.

Ive had trouble with hosts like Vercel and want to move to a more flexible setup.

It’s possible to self host redwoodJS - Cookbook - Self-hosting Redwood : RedwoodJS Docs

Just curious if anyone here has tried?

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If you run flyctl launch in your project directory, it might just work! I’ll fiddle with RedwoodJS this week, it’s been on my list anyway. :smiley:

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Wow thanks for such a quick reply and really awesome you already have redwoodjs on your roadmap.

I love that you guys already have some docs on support for things like custom domains and common SaaS things - SSL for Custom Domains · Fly

Def gives me hope! I will start to play with it this week and report some finding or anything I get stuck with here!

Look foward to sharing notes.

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Unfortunately, flyctl launch did not work out of the box - but not a total surprise :slight_smile:

Recent Logs
2021-03-15T16:59:27Z [info] Error: Cannot find module '/workspace/server.js'
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info]     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:923:15)
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info]     at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:768:27)
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info]     at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:76:12)
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info]   code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info]     at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info] }
2021-03-15T16:59:28Z [info]   requireStack: []

What do you suggest for next steps? Creating a Docker file?

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Is there a build step in package.json? You may need to add this script:


  "scripts": {
     ...
    "postinstall": "yarn build"
  },

You might also need to change to the Heroku builder (which we’ll probably do soon by default). In fly.toml, just replace the [build] section with this:

[build]
  builder = "heroku/buildpacks:20"
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Yea it’s tricky. Redwood has an API and Web side. It also uses yarn workspaces to split these two. So I am not sure if this get automatically picked up?

Will try your suggestions.

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PS - The core maintainers of redwood were interested in helping reach compatibility with Fly for redwoodjs. If are open to it - a shared slack workspace can be opened up. Reach out to David Price.

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Oh nice! I’ll get ahold of him. (also, I edited his email address out since this is intended to show up on google someday …)

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For anyone finding this post today, you can check out how to deploy a Redwood app to Fly here.

A deeper integration and official Redwood setup command is in the work.

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As of today’s release of flyctl v0.0.241 fly launch indeed should work in a Redwood project directory.

It will generate a Dockerfile and an accompanying fly.toml, making the project deployable immediately on Fly. Give it a spin, and let us know how it goes!

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