A complete, provider-honest walkthrough to ship a Node + Postgres app with a real domain and HTTPS.
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4.6You built an app. It works on your laptop. Now you need it on the internet with a real domain, HTTPS, a managed database, and environment variables that are not committed to Git. This guide takes you all the way there. It covers the deployment shape used by the majority of full-stack JavaScript apps today: a Node/Next.js application, a managed PostgreSQL database, environment-based configuration, and automatic deploys from a Git push. The steps are written so they transfer across hosts — the exact buttons differ between providers, but the sequence and the decisions do not. You will set up production environment variables, run database migrations safely against a live database, point a custom domain with the correct DNS records, get a TLS certificate, and add a basic health check so you know when something breaks. The guide is explicit about the things that bite people on first deploy: build commands versus start commands, why your app cannot find the database in production, CORS, and the difference between build-time and run-time environment variables. After following it you will have a repeatable deployment process you can run for any future project, and you will understand each step well enough to debug it when a provider's UI changes. Who it is for: developers comfortable building locally who have never owned a production deployment, or who have deployed once by luck and want to actually understand it.
No. It teaches the deployment shape (build command, start command, env vars, managed DB, DNS, TLS) that is identical across modern hosts, with notes where providers differ. The skills transfer.
Yes. It walks through provisioning managed PostgreSQL, wiring the connection string as a secret, and running migrations against production without losing data.
A Node.js / Next.js app with PostgreSQL, which is the most common full-stack JS setup. The DNS, TLS, and env-var sections apply to any stack.
Yes. The final section is a checklist of the most common first-deploy failures with the actual cause and fix for each.
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