Build error ECONNREFUSED while deploying to Railway

[spidertwin2]

Hello,

I am trying to deploy on Railway, but am getting the following build error.

> Build error occurred
FetchError: request to http://localhost:3000/api/blog failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3000
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/workspace/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1461:11)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:314:20)
    at Socket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:427:9)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:314:20)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:92:8)
    at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:60:3)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) {
  type: 'system',
  errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] build: `blitz build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/heroku/.npm/_logs/2021-05-13T10_29_40_140Z-debug.log
ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1
ERROR: failed to build: executing lifecycle: failed with status code: 145


======= Build Completed ======

Deployment failed
Build Failed! Please see output for more information

Thanks 🍃

[flybayer]

Based on a recent discussion in the Blitz discord, it looks like the solution is to set your start command to blitz start --port ${PORT-3000} because Railway doesn't have automatic port detection

[spidertwin2]

Thank you 🌲