---
title: "Deploy craft-suite"
description: "Six open-source creative apps — Rust/WASM, in your browser, one deploy."
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/craft-suite
---

# Deploy craft-suite

Six open-source creative apps — Rust/WASM, in your browser, one deploy.

**[Deploy craft-suite on Railway](https://railway.com/template/craft-suite)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/craft-suite/manifest.json

- **Creator:** derekcheungsa's Projects
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

### craft-suite

- **Source:** https://github.com/derekcheungsa/craft-suite-railway
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Craft Suite — 6 Open-Source Creative Apps (Rust + WASM)

Deploy an entire open-source creative suite in one click. Six desktop-grade apps, rewritten from scratch in pure Rust and compiled to WebAssembly, running entirely in your browser:

| Path | App | An open alternative to |
|---|---|---|
| `/photocraft/` | PhotoCraft | Photoshop — layers, masks, PSD import, GPU compositing |
| `/lightcraft/` | LightCraft | Lightroom — photo library, RAW developer, batch edits |
| `/pdfcraft/` | PdfCraft | Acrobat — view, merge, split, annotate, fill, encrypt PDFs |
| `/vectorcraft/` | VectorCraft | Illustrator — vector graphics, typography, SVG/PDF export |
| `/filmcraft/` | FilmCraft | Premiere Pro — timeline video editing, grading, codecs |
| `/effectcraft/` | EffectCraft | After Effects — motion graphics, keyframes, render queue |

The root URL serves a portal page linking to all six apps.

## About Hosting

Every app is 100% client-side — the service is just nginx handing over static WASM files. There is no server-side code, no database, no storage service, and no accounts. WASM payloads (the largest is ~65 MB raw) are precompressed with gzip at build time and served with immutable caching for hashed assets, so repeat loads are fast.

**Your data stays in your browser.** Documents and projects persist to browser storage (OPFS/IndexedDB) — nothing is sent to or stored on the server. Browser storage is tied to the exact domain: **configure your custom domain before importing important work**, and export anything you can't afford to lose. Chrome or Edge recommended (WebGPU); other browsers fall back to WebGL2/CPU paths.

A `/healthz` endpoint is available for healthchecks.

## Why Deploy

- **One URL, six tools** — a full creative suite on your own domain, behind no third-party service.
- **Private by architecture** — no accounts, no telemetry, no server-side document storage; files never leave the user's machine.
- **Nearly free to run** — static serving only; idle resource usage is close to zero and fits comfortably in the Hobby plan.
- **Try before you install** — these are the browser builds of popular open-source desktop apps (PhotoCraft alone has 27k+ stars), no install required.

## Common Use Cases

- A personal creative toolbox available from any machine with a browser.
- Letting a team or class try Photoshop-/Illustrator-/Premiere-style open-source tools without installing desktop builds.
- A sandbox for evaluating the craft apps before adopting the desktop versions.
- A quick demo of what Rust + WebAssembly can do in production.

## Dependencies for this template

### Deployment Dependencies

None beyond the template itself: no databases, no volumes, no external services. The single service builds from this repo's Dockerfile, which downloads pinned release artifacts of the six upstream apps at build time. Service variables (`PHOTOCRAFT_VERSION`, `LIGHTCRAFT_VERSION`, `PDFCRAFT_VERSION`, `VECTORCRAFT_VERSION`, `FILMCRAFT_VERSION`, `EFFECTCRAFT_VERSION`) pass through as Dockerfile build args — bump one and redeploy to upgrade that app. The build fails fast if a pinned artifact is missing.

## Credits

All six apps are built by the [storytold](https://github.com/storytold) org (MIT / Apache-2.0); this template redistributes their unmodified release artifacts behind an nginx portal. Not affiliated with Adobe or ArtCraft.


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