The easiest way to get started with Typebot is with the official managed
service in the Cloud. You’ll have high availability,
backups, security, and maintenance all managed for you by me, Baptiste,
Typebot’s founder. The cloud version can save a substantial amount of
developer time and resources. For most sites this ends up being the best value
option and the revenue goes to funding the maintenance and further development
of Typebot. So you’ll be supporting fair source software and getting a great
service!
Requirements
- A Postgres database hosted somewhere. For production, Neon is my provider of choice. This is not an affiliate link; it is simply the provider I use and recommend for a production database. You can also use any compatible Postgres provider or host Postgres yourself.
- A server with Node.js 24.x, bun, Nginx, and PM2 installed.
- Experience in deploying Next.js applications with PM2. Check out this guide for more information.
Getting Started
- Fork/clone the repository and checkout the latest stable version.
- Setup environment variables by copying the example files and following the configuration guide to fill in the missing values.
The database user should have the
SUPERUSER role. You can setup and migrate
the database with the bunx nx db:migrate prisma command.- Install dependencies
- Run the database migrations
- Build the builder and viewer
If you face the issue
Node ran out of memory, then you should increase the
memory limit for Node.js. For example,NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=4096
will increase the memory limit to 4GB. Check this stackoverflow
answer
for more information.Deployments
Deploy the builder
From the repository root, start the builder with PM2:Deploy the viewer
From the repository root, start the viewer with PM2:You can change the ports passed after
-p. The PM2 commands must be run from
the repository root so Nx can resolve the workspace.Nginx configuration
You can use the following configuration to serve the builder and viewer with Nginx. Make sure to replace theserver_name values with the respective domain names for your Typebot instance. They should match NEXTAUTH_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_VIEWER_URL. Check out this guide for a step-by-step guide on how to setup Nginx and PM2.