Party Props Updates: June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025
Party Props deploys to the cloud for the first time, and the leaderboard gets a grid view.
June 16 was our biggest infrastructure day yet. Party Props went from running only on local machines to being live in the cloud.
- Cloud deployment: We got both the client and server running on Google Cloud Platform. The server runs on Cloud Run and the client is served via Firebase Hosting, which means the app is now accessible from anywhere.
- Leaderboard grid view: Guests and hosts can now view the leaderboard in a grid layout, making it easier to scan standings at a glance during a party.
Under the hood, this involved a lot of foundational work: Docker configuration for the server, PostgreSQL session storage so login sessions survive server restarts, Secret Manager for keeping credentials safe, and plenty of fixes to get cookies and CORS behaving correctly across separate client and server domains. It was a heavy lift, but the app is now properly deployed and production-ready.