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Deploy a Go App to Railway

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:00:00 +0000

After using Heroku for many years, I’ve recently taken a look into Railway as an alternative hosting platform for various side projects. These projects are often written in Go (of course!) so I thought I’d write a quick guide on how to setup a new project - the good news is, it’s easy!

1) Get an Account

It’s easy to setup, the link on their home page will help you.

Signup to Railway

Change Go Version in Mod

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Picking up an old Go project, we wanted to update the desired version it should run on (mainly so when we deployed to our live systems it would use this version too). To do this, we updated the version within the go.mod file - the file which keeps track of both versions and packages used by the project.

We used the command below:

Update All Go Packages in Your Project

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

If you want to update all dependencies and packages within your project then the simplest way is to use the go get command which handles it all for us. Go modules (go mod) will handle most of the versioning of these packages, so deploying and sharing the project will keep the same package versions.