How to Deploy a Node.js App to Render.com for Free (Heroku Alternative)

In this video I will teach you how to deploy a Node app for free to render.com. Render is a free hosting platform, similar to Heroku for static websites, web apps like Node.JS and more.
Having a hard time deploying your app? I'll do it for you, pain free:
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[@Codebrah]

Having a hard time deploying your app?
I'll do it for you, pain free: codingwithcodebrah.com/deploy-4-me

[@kurdm1482]

thanks, i didn't specify the process.env.port, so it didn't go live, but with that added it works flawlessly. thanks bra!

[@SvitlanaYudina]

Thank you very much!!!🥰
You saved me and my backend!🥳
Special thanks for the detailed description of what needs to be indicated in each field. I would not have thought of writing "npm install" in the BUILD COMMAND field. And thanks for the typescript! That you said that after the installation you need to write a TSC!
You are a true professional. 😎Good luck to you!!!❤

[@shivanshthakur4538]

i want to see your backend baby

[@victorsgbaptista]

I had the same issue! Thanks for the great content!

[@tommetcalf3082]

Thanks for this. I was struggling to deploy a full stack app on Render. It was failing on the build, as I was trying npm build, but followed what you said about using npm install and it worked. Thanks for saving any further frustration!

[@Codebrah]

No problem, glad it helped.

[@archuser532]

really help alought

[@al-ft1ng]

thank you a bunch man. Been tryna upload my damn app for a day, tried vercel netlify n so on none worked except for this

[@trollpro0108]

I love youuuuuu!!!!!!! After days of try and fail with other services, your video was my greenlight!!! Thanks for making the content

[@Akiramenai04]

Thank You so much CodeBrah. Your channel name sounds like a hero who saves his county from some mischievous evil and you exactly did the same for me. Keep it Up !

[@КомилджонАрыкович]

You are awesome man, I was mad with other RUclipsrs tutorials. Keep going bro🔥🔥🔥

[@brunobrasil3419]

Just wanted to thank you and tell you that you deserve a bajillion subscribers. You have made my day! ❤

[@stellanwae5050]

Thank you sooo much for having this video. Simply explained. Thank you!

[@respect-dev-w7n]

it was my first time deploying .You made it easy thanks😁

[@johntony366]

2:13 You don't need to delete the node_modules folder. Just create a .gitignore file and add "node_modules" to it. This will tell git to ignore it.

[@omgavy]

LMAO
He is doing his way leave poor the poor guy.

[@starjohnson3040]

He explained you could create .gitignore file

[@sujoyghosh7152]

thanks a lot for the video brother. after wasting 2hrs trying to install express on netlify, this video done it in 10mins.

[@DarshanJainStud]

Very short and crisp video. It helped me a lot. Thank you for creating such meaningful and easy content. Bhagwan Mahavir bless you.

[@varvar3316]

Thank's man!!! You saved me! I had to quickly run with Heroku. Very on time and great service! God bless you! 🙏🙏🙏

[@Codebrah]

God bless you aswell my friend!

[@varvar3316]

@@Codebrah There is nothing to thank me for. Well, except for the fact that I'm raising 2 children. :)
I fled my country because of injustice. I am over 50 years old. But in order to survive in a new place, I'm learning js.
But people like you help us get out. You distribute knowledge to everyone. You are a good person and I am very grateful to you.
I repeat once again - God bless you and good people like you who help people!

[@andrewberrio7374]

@@varvar3316 hey CodeBrah I can help you with anything you need I had been studying for one year on mern stack.

[@adityasonakiya8864]

@@andrewberrio7374 can we deploy websites with socket use in them in render?

[@weggievillarante1029]

Thank you so much. It helps me a lot. This super easy! Thank for a detailed instruction.

[@mrnabby4178]

i just wasted 4 hours to host my backend application in netlify. That thing is too complicated. Render looks easy. I shall do it tommorow. Thanks in advance.

[@nithya4860]

Me struggling for 5 hours

[@mrnabby4178]

@@nithya4860 with render?

[@kush-cp8kc]

Thank you very much bro , I was searching for a alternate for a really long time , u saved my backend bro :)

[@guilliancelle7539]

Small question, if I have a .env how do I do

[@korauo]

add environment variables and click add from .env and then paste the contents of ur .env file in it.

[@Dagoth90]

Thanks man, needed this!

[@dev8896]

Thanx a ton man, saw this and deployed my express app on render.
Was trying from 2 days to get it on vercel but nothing was working there.

[@nicenamenicesurname8365]

What? Vercel works for node if you don't plan on using websockets, whatever it's done now

[@saurabhbisht2238]

Hii iam working on different mern project everything is working fine but when i reload the page it just says 404 error not found.......it is working well in local host it is not working after deployment.....

[@shashanktripathi1429]

i am getting module not found even though it is working perfectly on localhost ? please help

[@ahmedfarooq7253]

YOU ARE JUST AMAAZINGGG, YOU DESEVED 100000000000000M subsss, God Bless you bro

[@alexkroeger4113]

I clicked on the web service and my card got declined. I guess I need other options.

[@andriikniaziev9242]

Thank you so much! It is the first time i deployed app by myself))

[@nicolotiraboschi]

If I want to deploy an eCommerce website and use it, can I stick with the free plan or should I upgrade? In that case, should I consider alternatives to Render, like Heroku?

[@holly6679]

bro you are literally saving lives....thanks for the tutorial

[@Codebrah]

Happy to help

[@Abdullah-ayab]

but they want credit info

[@jotacedocarmo]

Hi Friend, I have an Angular application with webservice in Render with my application I create rooms and generate a code for each room, as when accessing this room in another browser I receive the message below: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 () (Page Not Found) . Do you know what might have happened?

[@gj_souls6738]

I never thought that Clint Eastwood would save me Haha, seriously man thanks a lot I always have problems hosting an application.

[@Codebrah]

😂😂😂 no problem man. Glad I could help

[@stan-beats]

thank you dude god bless you you helped me so much

[@playcode9750]

Thanks man. straight to the point.

[@charan6154]

Thank's for the video man!! appreciate it

[@nvcIT]

I'm having trouble connecting to the database while deloying. It gives me an error message like this "Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3306" even though under my localhost the project still runs normally. Can you help? Can I explain this problem? Thank you very much.

[@pharmacyvell]

How do i install libraries on render? Such as 'dotenv' or 'cors'?

[@Codebrah]

I'm not 100% sure but I would assume you do it nodeJS with npm. Then in render's build command option you just normally run a 'npm install'

[@umeshkumarbedi7216]

Many Many Thanks. I was searching like that

[@anjaliverma7246]

I deployed my node.js app on render but while adding query to url , it is not giving the expected output but when I am doing the same in local host, it is working.

[@pablofernandez1555]

Thx bro. Instruction clear and simple

[@jorgeloaiza3406]

Good video. How can I deploy my project with React js and Node js when backend is inside frontend? How can I know my root directory?

[@jleonelpm]

Hey, my friend, you save me, was really useful. Regards

[@justarandomguy6106]

will this work with websockets??

[@__shubhamtiwari]

Hello, have you tried ?

[@justarandomguy6106]

@@__shubhamtiwari no, tell me if u do

[@mnmmnnm8191]

im so grateful for your help

[@quangvunguyen2604]

what Cannot find module ‘/opt/render/project/src/app.js

[@WaveFlightSimulations]

i got same error

[@sohamsaha5398]

Any update on this?
I'm facing the same issue

[@muhammedsinan3897]

thanks a ton..man..You literally saved my lifetime project from collapsing..

[@Codebrah]

Glad I could help!

[@amarjeetkumarsingh733]

Thanks a lot...It helped me to deploy my full stack web app

[@atgaming263]

I already deploy and the logs says connected to the server. But when i visit my site it's still 502. Is it need time to website can be access ?

[@frandepaulo]

that is good if you have to handle little data, but if not.. onrender is too slow. A better option is vercel or railway

[@darkielee9395]

Thank you so much. This video is a life saver

[@kazisadman5142]

You saved a lot time. thank you🙌

[@SHREYWITHWORK]

hey !! I am getting this error please help me .......🤕
error mongoose@7.2.0: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=14.20.1". Got "14.17.0"

[@kazisamir123]

can i deploy Backend express restApi on it

[@juliancapponi2508]

Hello, help! In my project I have tasks scheduled with node-cron. It gives me the following error when doing the deploy, I followed your steps as is.
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'node-cron' imported from /opt/render/project/src/src/index.js
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at packageResolve(internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:655:9)
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at moduleResolve (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:696:18)
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at Loader.defaultResolve [as _resolve] (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:810:11)
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at Loader.resolve (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:88:40)
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at Loader.getModuleJob (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:241:28)
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at ModuleWrap. (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:56:40)
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM at link (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:55:36) {
Mar 23 12:54:12 AM code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'

[@LordPsychocutioner]

Can someone just tell me which github you used and what settings to use and which tags or codes to put in? I do not want to have my head chatted off for over 6 minutes when I could just do everything in under 1

[@nsikansimon1939]

Thanks for the explanation man!

[@darkagent9457]

Thank you much bro! You just helped me move my site to render, I was so depressed about heroku, god bless you!

[@Codebrah]

No problem!

[@gocrazy6177]

Thanks man you saved my job

[@hanifbahari6606]

I have a Strapi app with a .nev file, what should I do with the .env if I want to deploy from Github? Isn't it better to deploy the app manually ?

[@GuilleAcosta124]

Thanks! worked like a champ!!

[@lolwildriftbro]

Thanks Man! It was really helpful!

[@ddd99991]

Yo u should keep posting tutorials. I like your thumbnails

[@MukeshKhannaJ]

excellent tutorial thank you

[@node_python_lover454]

very interesting service! Thanks for introducing it to us!

[@fake_rabbi]

You just saved me. Thank you so much

[@VivekMittal-yv4ry]

It is showing "exited with status 7 while building your code". Pls help to deploy my app

[@eissafaheem6062]

I think there is a limit to api calls, If so then will socket events also exhaust this limit?

[@thecodingbear]

Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I'm just looking for this and it just suddenly appeared before me

[@asprogramming120]

how to install library or imagemagick ... etc system level software on render during deployment

[@andrews13]

You saved my life!

[@priyankakataria7922]

Will it work with Node.js + Frontend (HTML,CSS, JavaScript)?

[@mrcoder1822]

thank you so much bro easy and fast

[@DevelopmentLaboratory]

Thanks man, i am from Brazil ❤

[@horizon_uz]

thank you. My app working

[@FGA-47]

thanks so much. that was really helpful

[@unknown_user869]

Invalid host header on link
after starting the developmwnt server

[@11Najim11]

give this man a cookie

[@pablom2274]

What alternative to render would you recommend? I have a fullstack project with express-pug and was easy to make it run but the recover from inactivity is too long... thanks man!

[@Codebrah]

Me personally, I would just use a VPS. 5$ per month + $12/yr for the domain. I have a tutorial on my channel you can checkout. Goodluck!

[@jhonacosta8450]

very useful and compact. ty

[@CorlStream]

Thanks for the video!
Greetings from brazil :)

[@anandaj4764]

Thank you really helpful

[@b_1729-j8j]

Thanks a lot :-)

[@Codebrah]

You're welcome!

[@elads1712]

how you connect the front end if the port changed?

[@jahidhasanjibon3982]

really help me a lot thank you so much.

[@Codebrah]

No problem!

[@vishantt]

It takes 20-30 secs for my website on Render to load after it has not been used for 2-3 hours. Basically it starts/executes the website again only after the url is hit. Why does that happen and what can I do to make it faster?

[@xd9050]

upgrade their plan

[@vishantt]

@@xd9050 man that's awesome advice! Were you born a genius or trained hard to be one?

[@FirasMohamed96]

it worked thanks!

[@bong8385]

Render automatically installs all the npm packages that you need?

[@jeanpaulduarteibarra4415]

Nice, I tried three times with others services and all them were paid or dont work, thank u

[@2K20CO43ShobhitVerma]

Thank You!

[@david_yuzhakov]

thank you very mush!

[@zeusintheg8719]

Thanks man, thanks a lot!

[@chaitanyapawar5483]

Thank you so much!

[@EdwardYambasu]

Thanks so much bro

[@penknaja6587]

can you be able to config the .env file on the production ?

[@wantedshark5165]

thank you for the explain

[@devmistry2607]

thanks that worked for me :))

[@robvillalobos3370]

Thank you so much! 🙂

[@jamesdouglas8401]

Great video man

[@anonymous_hello]

Thanks CodeBrah !

[@carlossuarez3666]

Thanks, help me a lot

[@dasithatharinda8503]

worked for me. thanks

[@lolistrade3882]

you save me , thank you very much