Deploy

A Volt app is a plain Node app. Every scaffold ships a Dockerfile, render.yaml, fly.toml, and Procfile, so a platform can stand up the server, DNS, and TLS for you.

One-click PaaS (recommended)

• Render — push to GitHub, then New -> Blueprint (uses render.yaml).
• Fly.io — fly launch (uses the Dockerfile).
• Railway / DigitalOcean App Platform — point at the repo; they build the Dockerfile.

Config comes from the platform's env vars, not a committed .env:

1. Run npm run dev locally and enable your add-ons in the wizard — that saves their packages into package.json. Commit it.
2. Deploy, and set the same config as env vars: VOLT_ADDONS, DB_DRIVER, MONGODB_URI/DATABASE_URL, MEDIA_DRIVER + S3_*, SMTP_URL, …

NODE_ENV=production (set by the Dockerfile) makes the app boot straight up — no setup wizard.

Your own server (PM2 + nginx)

PORT=8080 pm2 start server.js --name my-app
pm2 save
# nginx: proxy your domain -> 127.0.0.1:8080

Ensure config is present (a .env or env vars) so it boots the app, not the localhost wizard. This very site is deployed this way.