App Platform Buildpack References

App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to publish code directly to DigitalOcean servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.


App Platform supports two ways to build an image for your app: Cloud Native Buildpacks and Dockerfiles.

When you give App Platform access to your code, it defaults to using a Dockerfile if one is present in the root of the directory or specified in the app spec. Otherwise, App Platform checks your code to determine what language or framework it uses. If it supports the language or framework, it chooses an appropriate resource type and uses the proper buildpack to build the app and deploy a container.

Supported Languages and Frameworks

Details on using the Aptfile buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.
Details on using the Go buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.
Details on using the Hugo buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.
Details on using the NodeJS buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.
Details on using the PHP buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.
Details on using the Python buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.
Details on using the Ruby buildpack in App Platform, including files for buildpack detection, choosing versions, and limits.

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