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Hi there,
Indeed with the App Platform you can not install packages directly.
What you could do instead is to use a Dockerfile and specify all of the packages and dependencies that you need in there and deploy your app that way:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/dockerfile/
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby
Hey OP or anyone else who finds this, I’ve written a NodeJS version of the Dockerfile that (it appears) has accomplished what you and I both needed.
Dockerfile https://gist.github.com/BrianVia/5826f1057e2d6c07836a2c3fc5ce4104
And the app spec portion looked like this:
name: <your-service-or-app>
region: nyc
services:
- dockerfile_path: apps/<your-app>/Dockerfile
# this path is for an NX monorepo
github:
branch: main
deploy_on_push: true
repo: GithubUserName/repo-name
http_port: 8080
instance_count: 2
instance_size_slug: professional-xs
name: projects
source_dir: /