Deploy and Host Image Gallery Starter on Railway

Image Gallery Starter is a public creator gallery for hosted generative media. It ships as a polished one-page Next.js app with hero previews, featured masonry groups, archive cards, collection stacks, protected image interactions, and a lightbox for prompt, model, and size metadata.

Use it when you want a deployable image portfolio rather than a private dashboard or managed SaaS product. Image Gallery Starter serves Cloudflare Images delivery URLs from a single source file, keeps gallery data easy to replace, and includes static security headers, CSP, deploy configs, and optional Sentry observability.

About Hosting Image Gallery Starter

Image Gallery Starter runs as a public gallery with no database, auth, billing, server actions, or private workspace state. Visitors can browse the homepage, open images in a lightbox, inspect prompt and model metadata, and move through the archive without signing in.

The app reads image records from lib/gallery/source-gallery-images.ts. Hero, featured, archive, and collection views all derive from that shared source so you can replace the starter media once and keep every gallery surface consistent.

Cloudflare Images handles the hosted media delivery. The app builds image URLs from NEXT_PUBLIC_CLOUDFLARE_IMAGES_ACCOUNT_HASH, the image ID, and the variant or options string. You can use the default https://imagedelivery.net origin or a custom Cloudflare Images delivery domain with the cdn-cgi/imagedelivery path.

For production posture, Image Gallery Starter includes static security headers and a small CSP through lib/security/csp.ts and next.config.ts. Sentry is optional: leave NEXT_PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN blank for a no-op runtime, or set it when you want browser and server error reporting with source-map upload configured through CI secrets.

Common Use Cases

A public AI image portfolio for generated artwork.
A creator archive with prompt, model, and size metadata.
A Cloudflare Images-backed media gallery with reusable deployment config.
A static showcase for image sets, collections, experiments, or model outputs.
A lightweight starter for replacing sample media with your own hosted images.
A deployable gallery that includes CSP, security headers, and optional Sentry monitoring.

Dependencies for Image Gallery Starter Hosting

Next.js for the public App Router experience and production build.
React for gallery interactions, lightbox state, and responsive UI.
Base UI for accessible interaction primitives.
Cloudflare Images for hosted image delivery.
Public Cloudflare Images config through NEXT_PUBLIC_CLOUDFLARE_IMAGES_ACCOUNT_HASH.
Optional custom Cloudflare Images delivery origin through NEXT_PUBLIC_CLOUDFLARE_IMAGES_DELIVERY_ORIGIN.
Static security headers and CSP for a safer public runtime.
Sentry for optional production observability.
For hosting, you can deploy using DigitalOcean, Netlify, Railway, Render, or Vercel.

Deployment Dependencies

Learn more: https://github.com/babysea-community/image-gallery-starter

Why Deploy Image Gallery Starter on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your application so you do not have to manage server setup manually, while still giving you a straightforward path for environment variables, domains, logs, and scaling.

By deploying Image Gallery Starter on Railway, you can publish a polished public gallery with minimal setup. Add your Cloudflare Images account hash, set the site URL, optionally configure Sentry, and Railway can build and serve the Next.js app from the repository.