Learn what you can build with App Platform
App Platform provides a fully managed solution to rapidly build, deploy, manage, and scale apps. Deploy code by simply pointing to GitHub or GitLab repository and let App Platform manage the infrastructure, application runtimes, and other dependencies.
Common use cases for App Platform
Web apps
Build dynamic apps in popular languages like Python, NodeJS
Static sites
Create websites that are fast, secure, and highly scalable
APIs
Add automation via APIs
Background workers
Improve efficiency by adding background workers
App Showcase
Amazing apps hosted on App Platform that you can take inspiration from. Web services, databases, static sites, and more.
Portfolio
A brilliant portfolio that takes animation and navigation to the next level.
Mental Health Crisis App
An insightful app that encourages families and friends to monitor those that they are close to.
Guild.so
A Laravel application that allows users to create team accounts and clock-in and clock-out.
Potatizer
A fun app to randomly generate a potato with a mood of its own.
Sample apps
Cool apps to help you kick tires and experience the power of App Platform
RSS Reader aggregator
Deploy this RSS feed aggregator and start getting news stories from your favorite sites. Sample app (here are the repos for front end and API)
Static Site Blog
Create a blog using Strapi as your backend and Next.js as your frontend. We can use DigitalOcean App Platform to deploy Next as a static site.
Guest Book
Create a digital guest book where people can enter their message. The backend is a Laravel API and the frontend is React.
URL Shortener
Build a URL shortener using a Django backend API and a Vue frontend. Deploy both to App Platform.
Videos
Short how-to videos to help you get up and running with App Platform
Deploy an App from Github
Learn how to connect to your code in GitHub repo and deploy it using App Platform
Deploy a full API and frontend to App Platform
Learn how you can quickly build a dynamic app and deploy API and front end to App Platform
Deploy a Gatsby static site
Check out how you can easily deploy a static site built in Gatsby
Deploy a dynamic Laravel app
Learn how to quickly deploy a Laravel based dynamic app.
Deploy a Django App
Learn how to setup your Django project and deploy it to App Platform
Build and deploy a Slackbot
Learn how to build and deploy your first Python Slackbot on App Platform
Deploy a Next.js App
Deploy your open source applications to DigitalOcean with the click of a button. Learn more
Tutorials
Comprehensive, expert tutorials to help you at every stage of production, whether you're learning, practicing, running, or optimizing.
How to deploy a static website to the cloud with DigitalOcean App Platform (for beginners)
Learn how to deploy your static website to the cloud with DigitalOcean App Platform. We’ll walk you through all the steps, including how to get started with GitHub. No prior deployment experience is necessary in this beginner-friendly tutorial.
How to deploy a static site from GitHub to DigitalOcean App Platform (Quickstart)
Learn how to deploy your static site from GitHub with DigitalOcean App Platform in just a few quick steps. If you don’t have a static site, you can use our sample site to learn how the App Platform works.
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