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

@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

The source_dir field, specifically, is the mechanism by which this is achieved.

You can then submit it using doctl with:

doctl apps create --spec .do/app.yaml