Deploy and Host Openfront Construction with Railway

Openfront Construction is a self-hostable construction project and company-operations application. Prospective clients can explore services and request work, while project participants use scoped portal access. Teams manage preconstruction, contracts, budgets, procurement, execution, field records, documents, safety, billing, and approvals.

About Hosting Openfront Construction

This template provisions the application from its GitHub repository, PostgreSQL, and a private native Railway Bucket named Storage. The database starts empty; no demo records or reusable credentials are included. Initialize the application using the repository's onboarding instructions after deployment.

DATABASE_URL references Postgres and the five S3_* variables reference the Storage bucket. Generated per deployment: SESSION_SECRET.

The app gets a Railway-generated public domain. No custom domains are included.

Admin Dashboard

Manage pipeline, projects, store settings, setup, service requests, portfolio through dedicated dashboard workspaces and permission-controlled data screens.

Storefront

Public routes cover services, project portfolios, /start-a-project, estimates, bids, RFPs, and customer request accounts. The /portal surface provides project-specific collaboration rather than unrestricted dashboard access.

Project Workspaces

Organize project teams, schedules, preconstruction, contracts, financials, procurement, execution, field activity, and reporting.

Documents & Controlled Approvals

Manage documents, invitations, approval policies and decisions, project records, and participant portal workflows.

Client Requests & Delivery

Capture public intake and service requests, expose customer request status, and route workflow events through an outbox. Payment or webhook configuration must be supplied separately from the project record itself.

Common Use Cases

Project Workspaces
Documents & Controlled Approvals
Client Requests & Delivery

Dependencies for Openfront Construction Hosting

The app needs a PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage. Both are provisioned by this template.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Next.js and Keystone 6 with a GraphQL API, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Payments, email, and other external providers need their own operator configuration; this template does not activate them.

Why Deploy Openfront Construction 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 Openfront Construction 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.