How can I install python in a nodejs app?

Hey @a73f776eefc546709cb0576d5f4284,

I’ll recommend checking this docs page :

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/buildpacks/nodejs/

When you give App Platform access to your code, it defaults to using a Dockerfile if one is present in the root of the directory or specified in the app spec. Otherwise, App Platform checks your code to determine what language or framework it uses. If it supports the language or framework, it chooses an appropriate resource type and uses the proper buildpack to build the app and deploy a container.

heroku-buildpack-nodejs is utilized as the buildpack for detecting and building your NodeJS applications.

Use Dockerfile

To add Python to your Node.js app in DigitalOcean App Platform, you can create a custom Dockerfile that includes both Node.js and Python.

Something like this should work:

# Use an official Node.js runtime as a parent image
FROM node:14

# Set the working directory to /app
WORKDIR /app

# Install Python
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3

# Copy the package.json and package-lock.json files to the working directory
COPY package*.json ./

# Install the dependencies
RUN npm install

# Copy the rest of the application code to the working directory
COPY . .

# Start the application
CMD [ "npm", "start" ]

This Dockerfile installs Python 3 and sets the working directory to “/app”. It then copies the package.json and package-lock.json files to the working directory, installs the dependencies with npm install, and copies the rest of the application code to the working directory. Finally, it starts the application with npm start.

You’ll need to add the Dockerfile to your GitHub repo and redeploy the app.

Hope that helps!