Hosting

Host on Remake's servers

To deploy an app to Remake's servers, you need a paid account.

After you sign up for a paid account through the Remake website, you can run the following command in your Remake app's directory:

npx remake deploy

When you deploy, use the same email for your account that you used when creating your paid account.

🎉 Your app will be instantly deployed to our servers!

Host on your own server

Remake is an open-source Node.js app with a file-based database, so it's easy to deploy yourself!

A deployment guide: Remake does need any kind of advanced setup or dependencies. You can follow a simple guide like this one to deploy it.

Why host Remake yourself? Remake's built-in deployment and hosting doesn't support modifying backend code. So, if you modify the backend, you need to host Remake yourself.

The only requirement: Your server must have persistent storage

What kind of web host do you need?

We recommend using a VPS (virtual private server) like Digital Ocean, Vultr, or Linode that supports persistent storage — as well as backing up your server remotely every day.
If your server wipes out your disk on every deploy (like a lot of Docker-based hosts do), all your users' data will disappear. This is because Remake uses a file-based database and stores user data on disk.

Now you can modify backend code!

When you host Remake yourself, you can modify the backend code however you want

You can call remote APIs from the server-side and add their data to your app
You can hack Remake to add features it doesn't have yet (e.g. commenting or collaboration)
You can add your own custom backend, changing Remake's default auth or storage to one you built

A few tips:

When modifying Remake server code, you can safely ignore any references to appName and any if (RemakeStore.isMultiTenant()) statements (as well as anything inside) them — these are for the Remake's official hosting service that hosts multiple apps on the same server and this code isn't relevant for single apps
If you do host Remake yourself, check out this blog post that guides you through modifying Remake's server code and adding your own custom data