Background workers and smarter builds
Run background workers next to your web services, and build monorepos and apps with private packages without extra setup.
Worker services
Choose Worker when adding a service to run a queue consumer, a scheduled loop or any process that doesn’t serve HTTP. Workers have no public URL, but a crash on start still fails the deploy so you notice right away.
Smarter builds
- Workspace monorepos build with pnpm, Yarn, npm or Bun, installing from the repository root and building from your service’s folder.
- Private packages from your GitHub organization install during the build, using a read-only package token you add as a variable.
- A Root directory picker lists your repository’s folders.
- Build and start commands can be edited after the service is created.