Deploy and Host RomM on Railway

RomM is a beautiful, powerful self-hosted ROM manager and player. Browse your game library in the browser, pull metadata and artwork, manage saves and states, and share collections with friends.

About Hosting RomM

This template runs the standard RomM stack: the app (web UI plus embedded Valkey for background tasks) and MariaDB for metadata. Only the app is public; the database stays on private networking. Persist a single volume at /romm so library, resources, assets, and config survive redeploys (Railway allows one volume per service). First boot runs database migrations and may take a minute before /api/heartbeat is ready. After deploy, finish the setup wizard, place ROMs under /romm/library, and run a scan.

Common Use Cases

Personal or shared retro game library with metadata and covers
Browser play via EmulatorJS for supported platforms
Save / state sync across devices for your collection

Dependencies for RomM Hosting

RomM app (rommapp/romm)
MariaDB 11.4

Deployment Dependencies

Upstream project: https://github.com/rommapp/romm
Product site & docs: https://romm.app / https://docs.romm.app/
Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/rommapp/romm
Self-host compose example: https://github.com/rommapp/romm/blob/master/examples/docker-compose.example.yml

Implementation Details

Public entry: app on port 8080, healthcheck /api/heartbeat
Embedded Valkey inside the RomM image when REDIS_HOST is unset (no separate Redis service)
One volume on app at /romm; /redis-data is ephemeral on Railway

Why Deploy RomM 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 RomM 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.