Hey everyone
I’ve been using App Platform to deploy a few apps, and I’m curious how others are organizing their projects for smooth deploys.
Do you keep frontend and backend in one repo? Separate them? How do you handle shared env vars, secrets, or config files?
Would love to hear how others are doing it, especially for multi-service apps.
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Hey!
For my projects, I usually keep frontend and backend in separate repos. Makes it easier to manage deployments and use separate build/run commands in App Platform.
For shared config, I use environment variables at the component level and make sure secrets are injected through the UI or doctl.
I’ve also started using the app.yaml spec file to version control everything, which helps a lot:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/app-spec/
Curious what others are doing!
- Bobby
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