deploy-backend.yml

name: Deploy backend

# Deploy the hosted backend to Railway on every push to main that touches
# something the backend actually cares about. The desktop app ships
# separately via publish.yml and can't trigger a backend deploy.
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
    paths:
      - 'packages/backend/**'
      - 'packages/shared/**'
      - 'Dockerfile'
      - 'railway.toml'
      - '.dockerignore'
      - '.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml'
  workflow_dispatch: {}

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    # Guard so forks / PRs from forks can't burn Railway credits.
    if: github.repository == 'Gilbert09/talyn'
    steps:
      - name: Check out Git repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Install Railway CLI
        # npm-based install: the curl|sh installer runs under dash and dies on
        # a bash-only substitution, and never puts the binary on PATH for the
        # next step. npm's global bin is already on PATH. (Node is preinstalled
        # on ubuntu-latest.)
        run: npm i -g @railway/cli

      - name: Deploy
        env:
          RAILWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RAILWAY_TOKEN }}
        run: railway up --ci --service fastowl-backend