Just trying to deploy an app to the new DO App platform. My git repo has backend and frontend folders in it. So - a two part question: How do I tell digital ocean to that the app lives in the backend folder? Is it possible to hook up two instances to a single repo? I realize I can make a custom dockerfile and serve up both, but I rather not do that. I’m okay with the 2x payment.

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App platform - Repos with app(s) in subfolders?

Posted on October 23, 2020
DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by wesbos

Just trying to deploy an app to the new DO App platform.

My git repo has backend and frontend folders in it.

So - a two part question:

How do I tell digital ocean to that the app lives in the backend folder?
Is it possible to hook up two instances to a single repo? I realize I can make a custom dockerfile and serve up both, but I rather not do that. I’m okay with the 2x payment.

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Steven Normore

DigitalOcean Employee

• October 23, 2020

Accepted Answer

@wesbos 👋

This is possible, but you’ll need to use doctl and submit a custom app spec YAML — we don’t yet support it in the UI.

Check out our sample-monorepo as an example of this.

The spec in your case might look something like this:

name: sample-monorepo

static_sites:
- name: frontend
  github:
    repo: digitalocean/sample-monorepo
    branch: main
    deploy_on_push: true
  source_dir: frontend
  routes:
  - path: /

services:
- name: backend
  github:
    repo: digitalocean/sample-monorepo
    branch: main
    deploy_on_push: true
  source_dir: backend
  routes:
  - path: /api