Deploy a NestJS app

Bring a NestJS API online without assembling the TypeScript build, database, queue worker, and release setup yourself. Tokay reads the project structure, builds the app, and runs its Services together behind an HTTPS URL.

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The existing project drives deployment

Your NestJS project can move into production without a separate TypeScript build configuration for the platform. After you push the repo or connect GitHub, Tokay detects NestJS, the build and start commands, and the environment variables read by the configuration.

Before deployment, you review the setup and provide the private values only you know. Tokay encrypts those values in storage and supplies them to the app at runtime.

The API and queue workers stay together

Tokay runs queue consumers beside the API, so you do not have to configure a second worker platform. Each worker gets its own long running Service and shares the Project's Redis connection, database, and secrets with the web Service.

When TypeORM or Prisma expects Postgres through DATABASE_URL, Tokay creates the database and supplies the connection automatically.

Database changes are checked before release

Migrations stay in the normal deployment workflow while Tokay handles the risk around production data. We rehearse each migration against a copy of your data, pause destructive changes for your approval, and take a snapshot before an approved destructive change runs.

Health checks run before a new version receives traffic. If they fail, Tokay restores the working release automatically.

Your AI agent can deploy the complete application

A coding agent like Claude Code or Codex can return a verified NestJS API and worker without handing process configuration back to you. Through Tokay's GraphQL API, it can submit the repository, review the detected Services, set the secrets you provide, deploy them, and verify the live API and worker connection.

Point your agent to app.tokay.io/llms.txt for the deployment protocol.

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