Deploy your own project management app on Vercel and Render for free

Hi everyone, It's Hudy again

Today, I just released the deployment guide for Namviek on youtube. So, if someone who need to deploy my app to run their team please check out the link below

For those who would like to scroll for fast, use this post intead.

Preparation

In order to deploy namviek to Vercel and Render we need to prepare accounts on the following services

• Redis - for caching
• Mongodb Atlas - for database
• Github Account - store the codebase
• Firestore - for Gmail authentication
• Vercel - for frontend
• Render - for backend

Deployment process

The deployment progress will implemented in 5 steps. That's a lot of steps for a deployment tasks I know. However, you need no coding skills for these step. Just copy and paste some configurations and follows exactly what I do.

1. Create Redis database

So, the first thing we need to do is that create Redis database. Please go to use Redis cloud section and follow my instruction. The result of this step is you must to get the redis connection string as follow

REDIS_HOST=redis://default:ck7VLUkNQ*************[e-mail]:11077

2. Create database on Mongodb Atlas

Next, navigate to Mongodb Atlas and create your own database as the following instruction. After completing this process you will obtain the mongodb connection string in the following format.

MONGODB_URL=mongodb+srv://{user}:{pwd}@cluster0.weszq.mongodb.net/{dbName}?retryWrites=true&w=majority

If you want to secure your connection by restricting a specified Ip address, please visit MongoDb Network Access

3. Deploy backend to Render

Now, it's time to deploy backend to Render. Open a new tab and visit Render.com. Sign up a new account and just leave it. Go to my repo and click on the Deploy to Render button.

You will be redirect to the deployment page as following. Fill your Blueprint Name and environment variables.

The env values should be like the below example.

JWT_REFRESH_KEY=287kjshkjshdf
JWT_SECRET_KEY=12981KJ1H23KJH

JWT_REFRESH_EXPIRED=4h
JWT_TOKEN_EXPIRED=30m
JWT_VERIFY_USER_LINK_TOKEN_EXPIRED=1h

NEXT_PUBLIC_FE_GATEWAY=https://test/v2/234234/clusters

MONGODB_URL=mongodb+srv://<user>:<pass>@cluster0.bswhjt.mongodb.net/demodb?retryWrites=true&w=majority
REDIS_HOST=redis://<user>:<pass>@redis-48362.c345.ap-southeast-1-1.ec2.redns.redis-cloud.com:19729

MONGODB_URL and REDIS_HOST are important variables. So please input them exactly. The others are up to you.

Click on the Apply button to start deploying.
Wait for Render deploy the app. If nothing wrong the output should look like below. Don't worry about the red line through

Verify Render deployment process

Right after Render finishs the deployment process we have to verify it whether success or not. Head to Mongodb Atlas > Database > Cluster > Collections. And find your database that you've created earlier. If you see a list of collections as the image below then congrats you succeeded.

4. Deploy frontend to Vercel

Well, the last thing to run namviek is to deploy the frontend to Vercel. This will be quick i promise :D.

Open your browser and go to my repo and click on the Vercel deploy button. It will navigate you to the deploy page. Give it a name and press Create button. Then fill environment variables and press Deploy button.

If you don't find the NEXT_PUBLIC_BE_GATEWAY please go to Render.com and navigate to service's setting. You'll see the domain

At last, if you're lucky the below screen will be displayed that means the deployment is success. LOL

5. Integrate Gmail authentication

Follow my instruction here to integrate Gmail authentication

Conclusion

Hope you found something helpful in this post. If you got any issues, please create an PR or go to my Discord server for help. Thank for reading.