Fly

I've been really happy with remix.run after some testing this week.

I deployed this site to fly.io and wanted to go through the steps of how I achieved this.

1. Run the remix start command

npx create-remix@latest

2. Set up Prisma, you can follow this guide but the commands are

npm install --save-dev prisma
npm install @prisma/client
# we want to use SQLite, its fast and simple
npx prisma init --datasource-provider sqlite

3. Add some models to the schema.prisma file
4. Run this command to create the database

# should create a dev.db in the prisma directory
npx prisma db push

5. Add the db files to .gitignore
6. Install the fly command line tools

brew install superfly/tap/flyctl

7. Create a fly account

flyctl auth signup

8. Launch the app

# make sure you don't deploy the app or add a PostgreSQL database
fly launch

9. Check the Dockfile and that secrets are all set
10. Ensure that all migrations have been run

npx prisma migrate dev

11. Deploy the app

# can run fly logs to see how build is going
fly deploy

12. If you change the structure of your database you'll need to run

npx prisma migrate dev --name <name-of-migration>

as this ensures that the Prisma Client is updated.