Deploy and Host devjournal on Railway

What is devjournal?

devjournal is a full-stack learning journal application designed to teach Angular 21 and Go (Golang) backend development patterns. It focuses on modern, real-world architecture choices rather than toy examples, making it suitable for developers preparing for intermediate to senior-level interviews.

The project emphasizes:

• Clean separation between frontend and backend
• Practical API design
• Authentication and data persistence patterns
• Production-ready deployment workflows

Repository: https://github.com/sefatanam/devjournal

About Hosting

devjournal is designed to be cloud-deployable from day one. Railway is an ideal hosting platform because it supports:

• Go backend services
• Environment variable management
• PostgreSQL and other managed databases
• Automatic builds and deployments from GitHub
• Simple scaling and logs for debugging

The frontend (Angular) and backend (Go API) can be deployed as:

• Separate services (recommended for learning real-world architecture), or
• A combined deployment if the Angular app is served as static files from the Go server.

Railway’s developer-friendly workflow aligns well with devjournal’s educational goals.

Why Deploy

Deploying devjournal is not just about making it public — it is part of the learning process.

Deploying helps you:

• Practice real deployment pipelines
• Understand environment-based configuration
• Learn production debugging (logs, crashes, migrations)
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of a full-stack system
• Showcase a live project during interviews

In interviews, a deployed application with clean code and clear architecture carries far more weight than local-only demos.

Common Use Cases

devjournal can be used as:

• A personal learning journal for tracking concepts, experiments, and reflections

• A full-stack practice project for Angular + Go

• A portfolio project demonstrating production-ready skills

• A reference implementation for:

  • REST API structure
  • Auth flows
  • Frontend–backend communication

• A base project for extending into more advanced systems (tags, search, analytics, AI notes, etc.)

Dependencies for devjournal

devjournal consists of two main parts: Frontend and Backend.

Frontend Dependencies

• Angular 21
• TypeScript
• Angular Router
• HTTP Client
• Node.js (for build tooling)
• npm or pnpm

Backend Dependencies

• Go (Golang)
• net/http or a router framework
• Database driver (PostgreSQL recommended)
• Environment variable configuration
• JSON handling
• Authentication utilities (JWT/session-based)

Deployment Dependencies

To deploy devjournal on Railway, you will need:

• A Railway account

• GitHub repository access

• Go runtime configured on Railway

• Node.js runtime (for Angular build)

• A managed database service (PostgreSQL recommended)

• Environment variables configured in Railway:

  • Database connection string
  • API secrets
  • Frontend API base URL

Optional but recommended:

• Railway CLI
• Separate Railway services for frontend and backend

devjournal is intentionally structured to feel like a real production system, not a tutorial sandbox. The goal is simple: learn by building something that could actually ship.