Welcome to Changelog #95! There’s a Windows95 joke in here somewhere… Hold on. I’ll get to it eventually. For now, check out these hot new changelog items!

We’ve added Elixir support to Nixpacks, and thus the platform! This includes support for the extremely popular and equally stellar framework Phoenix! Ship a LiveView, now with zero config!

The goal of Railway is really to get activated as quick as possible. We want users to interact with computing in a curious and exploratory way, especially when they’re getting started.

This week marks the first rollout of “Public Projects”. These projects are viewable by ANYBODY, which means you can view the running version of some of your favorite projects (and additionally 1-Click deploy them!)

 an example from our most recent blogpost on node-cron

Bonus: the viewer role has been updated to not show environment variables. Great for sharing with contractors!

Remember when I said I’d get to that Windows 95 joke? You have arrived.

Before you ask; I did indeed pick the most pixelated image I could find thank you for asking.

This week we’ve got some new guides, fresh off the presses for you!

People have been asking “How do I do cron jobs on Railway?”, so we wrote a 

People have been asking “How do I deploy from GitLab?”, so we wrote a 

People have been asking “Railway vs Heroku?”, so we wrote a 

Want more content? Tell us what to write about!

Right clicking on the Railway icon from any page will now bring you to our branding page

Fixed Nixpacks to not install Java8 (Now installs Java17)

Fixed Nixpacks to get correct dependencies for Puppeteer

https://res.cloudinary.com/railway/image/upload/v1660949428/docs/developers_wmokey.png

Elixir Support, Public Projects, and New Guides

Changelog #0095