Question
How does the app creation process determine whether a source is static?
- Posted on September 21, 2022
- Node.js
Asked by Benjamin Eskildsen
I used npm to make a website, but I don’t need to run a node server to run the site – it is static since all I have to do is open the index.html and I get all my functionality (lots of clientside js). So when I connect the repo with this site I want DO to detect that the site is static so I don’t have to pay to host it. But static/start plan is not an option.
How does the app creation process determine whether the source I’m providing is static? Is it because there’s a package.json file that it assumes I must need to run a node server in order to serve the website? What am I missing?
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Hi there,
In the App Platform, a static site is a type of resource that only consists of a build process that produces static assets.
These assets are not served by an application runtime (such as Ruby, Python, or PHP), but instead are served by a simple HTTP server. Static sites therefore have no run command.
Common static site generators include Jekyll, Hugo, and Gatsby, all of which have samples available in Sample Apps.
Is your repository public? If so can you share it here so I could check it out?
Best,
Bobby
I am wondering the same thing.
I have a monorepo including one project that is a static deployment. We are paying for (many) deployments, so not trying to be cheap or anything :) But anyway this one doesn’t have built-in health checks, and that seems to be making it impossible me to either deploy it as a static site or one with a mini server.