Deploy and Host the Prisma Postgres Template

This template provides a production-ready starter project with Next.js, Prisma ORM, and a fully managed Prisma Postgres database. It's ideal for building modern full-stack applications with a type-safe backend and seamless database integration. Deploy instantly and start coding without setup overhead.

About Hosting Prisma Postgres on Railway

When deployed on Railway, this template automatically provisions and configures a Prisma Postgres database, applies migrations, and seeds initial data. Prisma ORM is pre-integrated with a schema and client ready to use in your Next.js project, giving you type-safe database access.

Common Use Cases

• Full-stack applications with a relational database
• SaaS products requiring a scalable database layer
• API backends with type-safe queries and migrations
• Prototyping and experimenting with Next.js + Prisma

Dependencies for Prisma Postgres Hosting

The Railway template comes with all required dependencies pre-configured:

• Next.js with TypeScript
• Prisma ORM for database access and migrations

Deployment Dependencies

• Railway Platform

Database Claiming

Each deployment provisions a fresh Prisma Postgres database. To keep a database across deployments, you need to claim it:

1. Open the claim URL (provided in README.md).
2. Follow the prompts to link the database to your Prisma Data Platform account.
3. On the Prisma Data Platform, open the database you just claimed and hit Connect.
4. Generate a database connection string by hitting the Generate Database Credentials button
5. Copy the generated DATABASE_URL into:
   • Your local .env file
   • Your Railway Service variables section

Once claimed, you can remove the scripts/ folder (including create-db.mjs) and delete the "postinstall" and "setup" entries from package.json.

If you created a new database

Initialize it with Prisma:

# Push the schema
npx prisma db push

# Generate the Prisma client
npx prisma generate

# (Optional) Seed the database
npx prisma db seed

Why Deploy Prisma Postgres 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 Prisma Postgres 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.