Production

To run Payload in production, you need to build and serve the Admin panel. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Invoke the payload build script by running yarn build or npm run build in your project root. This creates a ./build directory with a production-ready admin bundle.
2. Finally run yarn serve or npm run serve to run Node in production and serve Payload from the ./build directory.
3. When you're ready to go live, see Deployment for more details.

Deployment

Before deploying your app, you need to:

1. Ensure your app builds and serves in production. See Production for more details.

The easiest way to deploy your project is to use Payload Cloud, a one-click hosting solution to deploy production-ready instances of your Payload apps directly from your GitHub repo. You can also deploy your app manually, check out the deployment documentation for full details.