Deploy and Host a Discord NestJS Bot on Railway

Discord NestJS Bot Template is a foundation for building scalable Discord bots using NestJS, Necord, and Discord.js. It provides a clean, modular structure, built-in examples, and guides that help beginners and advanced developers alike quickly set up and extend their bots with commands, events, and integrations.

🔨 Active Development

This template is usable right now and can be succesfully deployed in its current state. However, the whole point of it is to provide a solid foundation of examples and guides to help you navigate NestJS, Necord and DiscordJS. If you just want a Discord bot already setup to work with NestJS, then this is ready for you!

However, if you're looking for something with more tooling, examples and guides, make sure to star the repo and watch for updates! There are still a lot of concepts to cover by the template and they are being actively worked on, as of late September 2025!

About Hosting Discord NestJS Bot

Hosting a Discord NestJS Bot on Railway means your bot is always online, automatically redeploys when you push changes to GitHub, and scales seamlessly with your needs. The template is pre-configured for cloud deployment, so you can skip server setup and focus on building your bot’s features. With NestJS under the hood, you also gain the ability to extend your bot into a REST API or full-stack application without changing platforms.

Common Use Cases

Building a modular and maintainable Discord bot with slash commands, events, and interactions
Extending your bot with REST APIs or connecting it to external web applications
Quickly prototyping Discord bots with a production-ready hosting environment

Dependencies for Discord NestJS Bot Hosting

Node.js (v18 or higher)
GitHub account (for repository hosting and deployment integration)

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Discord NestJS Bot on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Discord NestJS Bot on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.