I have a few questions before I make a prototype with Payload

lithia7777 months ago

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My use case:

- I have a running app at aintboard.com, and we want to add some SEO content as fast as we can. So that means, automating content with a few clicks. Also we want to have our own customizable boardgame list, and I want Payload to help with this.

So my questions are:

1. Can I use an existing MongoDB database?

2. Does it work well with deploying to Render? (I'm looking for cheap places to deploy it to)

3. Are there automation plugins we can use?

Thanks

anyone in here to answer my questions pls?

thanks Sean!

1. a migration script doesnt sound so bad! thanks

2. im happy about this vercel route as i already have my app hosted there 🙂

3. amazing thanks

off to prototyping now

@858693520012476436

just realized we're only v2 😬

also does it mean i need to use custom servers for now and i cant leverage vercel's serverless functions?

gotcha thanks

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  seanzubrickas

  last year

  Hey

  @496454879674499123

  I'll try to get you some answers here shortly. Hold tight!

  
  
  

  Thanks for jumping in here

  @858693520012476436

  !

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  paulpopuslast year

  Hey

  @496454879674499123

  
  
  

  1. Yes you can, though if you mean

  with

  existing data, then that may be quite difficult, especially difficult to maintain long term

  
  
  

  If you do have existing data, what I would recommend doing is a one time data migration script moving it from the old structure to payload

  
  
  

  2. Payload does work with Render, and any other normal server host...a client was hosted on it previously however we had a lot of issues with their service...quite frequent down times or failing builds completely out of our control

  
  

  DigitalOcean, Railway and any others are also good

  
  

  With version 3.0 you will also be able to host it entirely for free on Vercel!

  
  
  

  3.There's no automation plugins

  yet

  , however you can quite easily build a custom integration with any service you need via the hooks system

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/collections
  

  using these hooks you can automate pretty much any aspect of the cms, so you can for example sync data to another system, trigger other functions etc. inside of these depending on what kind of trigger you're looking for

  
  
  

  let us know if oyu have any more questions!

  
  
  

  we're aiming for a 3.0 beta for end of q1 i believe

  
  
  

  you can use next-payload as a package, but its quite iffy to work with

  
  
  

  custom server is more stable and more widely used by others here...you could host it that way or host payload separately and then migrate

  
  
  https://github.com/payloadcms/next-payload
  
  

  cool, I never knew

  @360823574644129795

  made this video!

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  richie373last year

  Also, for anyone who is okay with having the

  CMS run on a different domain to their website

  , this video shows you how you can get the payload admin dashboard up and running on two different platforms, Northflank and Railway.

  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XmQE03y5Ek&t=29s
  
  Note:

  To get this to work don't manually add the environment variable NODE_ENV to the platform like the developer in the video does, because there's already a Docker file in your project that does that, assuming you used

  npx create-payload-app@latest.
  

  Adding in the NODE_ENV variable again will lead to the build failing.