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Deploying NestJS Application: Easy and Explained

Jaskirat Grewal on September 16, 2020

Nest: Quick Overview The biggest rule of programming is--DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). If one wants to write a more efficient ...
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Pavan Chindukuri

Hey is there any free alternative for deployment?

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Allan N Jeremy • Edited

Hey, you can use Heroku with their free plan for a start.

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Sara Lufi

Sadly there is no more free plan in heroku :(

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Jaskirat Grewal

Yup that's true.

Try Vercel.

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Sara Lufi

There is no proper resource for deploying a NestJS application of Nx Monorepo

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Michael Korostelev

Try Cyclic

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Sara Lufi

Is there any example for deploying NestJS application or any resource at all?

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Sara Lufi

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I am keep getting this error

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Zeke

I'm also trying to deploy a NestJS App @saralufi , did you ever get this to work? If not, what did you do? Any help / suggestions would really help me out, because i'm new to deploying apps and NestJS. Thanks!

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Zeke

Ok so i tried deploying it and i am getting the same error as you :(
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Zeke

I just got it to work! Removed some packages i didn't need and re wrote some of the code to use lighter weight dependencies, and now everything works!! 🥳 🥳

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Paddy McCallan

What port are you using for your main.ts? await app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000); I'm not sure if cyclic has a specific port or not. It builds fine but get this when I try to access my api via swagger - [CYCLIC] ERROR: No response from server on port 3000

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Naz 🥑

Found this guide on deploying NestJS on Vercel if anyone is wandering about a free option too - dev.to/leduc1901/how-to-deploy-you...