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Software engineer with broad experience across modern web and cloud environments. Passionate about open source.
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How do I disable caching for node_modules in the App Platform build?
I'm a Developer Advocate at Prisma (www.prisma.io) and a user reported problems (https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions/6165) when deploying an app that uses Prisma to the App Platform. Prisma relies on code gen... -
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How To Build a GraphQL API with Prisma and Deploy to DigitalOcean's App Platform
In this tutorial, you'll build a GraphQL API for a blogging application in JavaScript using Node.js. You will first use Apollo Server to build the GraphQL API backed by in-memory data structures. You will then deploy ... -
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Access to DATABASE_URL during build time in the App Platform
I was looking at the environment variables for an App I created in the App Platform with a PostgreSQL database and that the DATABASE_URL is available during build time: Your component will have access to these variab...Accepted Answer: 👋 @danielnorman Currently there is not a way for DATABASE_URL (or any other database bind variables) to be available during build. We plan on supporting build time access to databases soon though we don't have a spec...