How to upload a static website from the build folder

Hi there,

The DigitalOcean App Platform does not offer a drag-and-drop way of deploying sites.

The best way to deploy your static site to the App Platform is to use a GitHub repo. It does not have to be a public one, you can also use a private repository and keep your site files private.

After you’ve deployed your static site via GitHub, the next time you push your changes to your repository they will be automatically deployed to the App Platform, so it will be a matter of pushing your changes with:

git add . 
git commit -m "your commit" 
git push origin main

To get your changes from your local laptop to the App Platform.

You can define the build command in the App Platform so that you will not have to build your site locally and push the build folder, but it will be done on the App Platform itself.

Here is a step by step guide on how to do this:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-react-application-to-digitalocean-app-platform

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby