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Write a plain Node.js app with expressJS/NestJS — routes, cron, queue — and laranja provisions it 1:1 into your own cloud with one command. No YAML, no keys to hand over, no lock-in.
I kept watching backend devs — myself included — lose whole days to infrastructure just to get a NestJS app onto the Cloud. You either hand-write mountains of CDK/Terraform, or you reach for a platform that asks for a long-lived, near-admin IAM key and quietly runs everything on its own servers. Neither felt right: one is toil, the other is a trust and lock-in problem. So I set out to build a deploy tool that reads your code — your routes, crons, and queues are already declared there — and turns that into real AWS/Azure/GCP infrastructure, with no IaC to write and no standing credentials to hand over.
The approach shifted a lot along the way. I started by generating infrastructure locally on the developer's machine, but that meant shipping a heavy synth engine into every install and made the logic hard to evolve. The turning point was splitting the work: the CLI builds your app and produces a small intermediate representation, the server synthesizes the CloudFormation from that, and your own machine executes the deploy with your own credentials. That one decision is what makes laranja both zero-config and something you never have to trust with the keys to your account — and if you ever outgrow it, you can eject to plain IaC and walk away.
Tried it on a small nestjs project with a cron job and redis queue. The one command actually pushed a working setup to my cloud account without me touching any YAML, which honestly surprised me for something this simple.
tried it with a small nestjs app and was honestly surprised the cloud setup came out clean on the first run. the no-yaml thing actually holds up, which i was skeptical about going in.
Finally something that actually deploys my express app without me writing 200 lines of YAML or hunting down a dozen IAM keys. The one-command provisioning into my own cloud felt almost too smooth.
finally something that lets me skip the YAML hell. spun up a quick express app with a cron job and laranja had it running on my cloud in under two minutes, no weird config gymnastics.
Finally something that lives up to the "one command" promise, I pointed it at a small Express app with a cron job and it spun up the same stack on my AWS without me touching a single YAML file. The lack of vendor lock-in is what got me to actually try it.
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“Your code is your infrastructure”
laranja was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. Write a plain Node.js app with expressJS/NestJS — routes, cron, queue — and laranja provisions it 1:1 into your own cloud with one command. No YAML, no keys to hand over, no lock-in.
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