DigitalOcean App Platform Resources
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Dive into App Platform
Learn how App Platform helps you launch your apps quickly and efficiently. Explore these in-depth resources, then bookmark them for future reference as you experience App Platform.
Getting started on App Platform
App Platform is fully managed, which means DigitalOcean handles provisioning and infrastructure management, databases, operating systems, application runtimes, and other dependencies. App Platform was built with in-depth knowledge of pain points users encounter while building apps so that now many tasks are abstracted away to make pushing code to production take just a few clicks. Learn more about App Platform:
Static Sites
App Platform offers free hosting for your first three static sites. App Platform automates setup of underlying server infrastructure, allowing you to deploy your static website to the cloud from a GitHub repository without having to tinker with infrastructure details.
Code to production in just a few clicks
Quickly and simply build custom apps using App Platform, and push them to production just as easily. Here are a few resources to get you started with App Platform using the language of your choice.
Building Production-Ready Apps With App Platform, DigitalOcean's Reimagined PaaS
Language Dev Guides and Sample Apps in App Platform
Deploy a Laravel API to App Platform
Components
As your applications evolve, their infrastructure often needs to as well. Component-based apps encourage use of modular and loosely coupled parts that enable independent scaling, management, and maintenance of the various pieces of software needed to deliver your application.
Databases
Being able to scale your database as your application grows is essential to ensuring that your services can access the data they need at any time.
Growing on App Platform
App Platform lets you choose how you want to scale your apps. Scale your application horizontally by increasing the number of containers, or vertically by increasing the container size.
Deploy a Glitch App on DigitalOcean
Get started deploying to DigitalOcean with these popular apps. Just remix and add your DigitalOcean access token to get started.
glitch-in-bio
Your links, your way. A link-in-bio app you can customize any way you want.
hello-digitalocean
Get started with a new React project on Glitch, one more step away from deploying to DigitalOcean!
hello-digitalocean-node
A simple Node app built with Fastify, instantly up, running, and one more step away from deploying to DigitalOcean!
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