Deploy jiangshan-map

Deploy and Host jiangshan-map on Railway

Jiangshan Map is an interactive historical atlas of China spanning the Warring States period to the present. Explore evolving borders, ancient cities, administrative histories, famous landmarks, historical figures, and journeys through an intuitive timeline-driven web interface with bilingual content and shareable deep links.

About Hosting jiangshan-map on Railway

Railway hosts the pre-built Docker image as a single public Nginx service. The deployment requires no database, worker, external service, or persistent storage, making it suitable for quick one-click access to the static atlas.

Tech Stack

• Nginx Alpine
• Static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• SVG map rendering
• JSON and topology-based historical map data
• Docker
• Railway

Why Deploy jiangshan-map on Railway

Railway provides simple Docker image deployment, managed HTTPS, automatic public domains, and reliable container operations without requiring server administration. The atlas can be launched as a single low-maintenance service with no database configuration.

Common Use Cases

• Teaching and exploring Chinese historical geography
• Researching ancient place names and administrative changes
• Following historical figures and literary journeys
• Embedding historical map views in educational content
• Sharing timeline-based historical map deep links

Deployment Notes

The service listens on container port 80 and requires PORT=80 for Railway routing. It uses the Docker image xiaosong233/jiangshan-map-railway:latest, which contains the static site served by Nginx. No start command override, environment secrets, database, or persistent volume is required. The verified deployment domain is https://jiangshan-map-production.up.railway.app.

Dependencies for jiangshan-map on Railway

This is a self-contained static web service with no runtime dependencies on other Railway services.

Deployment Dependencies