Deadlight can be deployed entirely from a phone, but on ARM64 Android you’ll need to run a Debian userland inside Termux using proot. This bypasses Android’s memory layout limitations that break workerd.
# 1. Install Termux + proot
pkg update && pkg install proot-distro git jq openssl-tool
# 2. Bootstrap Debian inside Termux
proot-distro install debian
proot-distro login debian
# 3. Install prerequisites inside Debian
apt update && apt install nodejs npm git jq openssl -y
# 4. Clone blog + lib
git clone https://github.com/gnarzilla/blog.deadlight
git clone https://github.com/gnarzilla/lib.deadlight
cd blog.deadlight && npm install
cd ../lib.deadlight && npm install && cd ../blog.deadlight
# 5. Authenticate with Cloudflare
npx wrangler login
# 6. Create & bootstrap remote database
npx wrangler d1 create mobile-deadlight
npx wrangler d1 execute mobile-deadlight --remote --file=migrations/20250911_schema.sql
# 7. Seed admin user (remote-only)
./scripts/gen-admin/seed-termux.sh
# 8. Set secrets
openssl rand -base64 32 | npx wrangler secret put JWT_SECRET
echo "https://mobile.deadlight.boo" | npx wrangler secret put SITE_URL
# 9. Deploy
npx wrangler deploy