Fixed Railway deployment error:
'invalid character ï looking for beginning of value'
Cause: UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark) at file start
Solution: Recreated file with UTF-8 without BOM
Railway JSON parser now reads correctly
Added production-ready Dockerfile:
- Node.js 18 Alpine (lightweight)
- Multi-stage dependency installation
- Health check monitoring
- Non-root user for security
- Production optimizations
Added .dockerignore:
- Exclude node_modules (reinstalled in Docker)
- Exclude .env files (Railway injects env vars)
- Reduce image size
- Faster build times
Railway will now detect project type via Dockerfile instead of guessing from package.json.
This ensures proper build configuration for BullMQ worker.
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