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Help Thread — DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon on DEV

dev.to staff on December 10, 2020

The DigitalOcean team will be making themselves available to help people who run into issues or have questions related to the App Platform as part ...

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Chris Sev • Dec 10 '20

Hey everyone. My name is Chris and I founded scotch.io and I'm a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean.

If you've got questions about building apps and deploying to App Platform, let me know!

Here's a video on how to deploy a Laravel + React app to App Platform to get you started: youtu.be/1T3d7P_V2t4

spiritupbro • Jan 1 '21

Hello chris i want to ask about deploy to DO button can we deploy two different repo using one deploy to DO button? because i saw in the documentation deploy to DO button can only deploy with limits of 1 service and 1 database because i have two different service one for backend as a service and the second one is a static site

Chris Sev • Jan 2 '21

currently we don't support 2 repos with the deploy button but I understand that's a big request. would make the button very effective with that feature.

spiritupbro • Jan 2 '21

yap waiting for that feature in the future but actually it helped when let's say we had static website and backend service api with so many environment variable we can just click that button and just connect the static website using some url for example that we can pass to that static website environment variable anyway thanks for the answer

simkimsia • Dec 13 '20

Question to the DO team:

My #dohackathon app uses Django on Docker and push to DOAP.

Now I am stuck on how to setup a postgres. Typically, I have a separate container for postgres on my local dev env setup.

On DOAP, how should taht be done? your tutorial covers the use of droplet and recommends postgres cluster digitalocean.com/community/tutoria...

Given that this #dohackathon is about using DOAP, how do I use postgres within DOAP?

Thank you

Bobby Iliev • Dec 13 '20

Hi there,

You can actually add a database component to your App platform directly. There is no need to set up a database server on a separate Droplet.

You can follow the steps on how to add a database component here:

digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform...

simkimsia • Dec 13 '20

Ok thanks

Bobby Iliev • Dec 13 '20

No problem! Good luck with this and have fun building! 🙌

Shaiju T • Dec 15 '20

Hi, I can see App Platform has free pan, So Can i deploy Commercial static websites and .NET Core API with 0 $ plan ?

digitalocean.com/products/app-plat...

Bobby Iliev • Dec 22 '20

Hello 👋

The free plan is only for static sites. As you would have an API service, you would need to select the standard plan.

Peter Dave Hello͌ͯͦ̉ • Jan 9 '21

Hello,

I have a few questions: How to make sure my submission is successful? Do we need to do anything else after using the official template to submit? Or do we need to provide the port URL somewhere?

Thanks a lot!

Bobby Iliev • Jan 9 '21

Hi there Peter 👋 Good to hear that you are participating as well!

Yes, as long as you use the template and provide all of the necessary information in there like the link to your app, the link to your GitHub/GitLab repo, License and etc. it will be fine.

Also make sure to use the #dohackathon tag!

Peter Dave Hello͌ͯͦ̉ • Jan 9 '21

Cool! Thanks for the lighting speed response Bobby⚡️!

Bobby Iliev • Jan 9 '21

No problem and good luck!

Peter Dave Hello͌ͯͦ̉ • Jan 11 '21

Well ... I'm not familiar with DEV platform and didn't notice that there is a published: config in the template need to be changed to true... until now lol ...

Nagy Szabolcs • Dec 28 '20

Hey there!
I ran into a pretty bad situation...
I first made an account with my main email trough GitHub, and entered a virtual card not thinking it would terminate itself after the test transaction from Digital Ocean. This caused me to get my account locked. I opened a ticket and explained the situation but they told me they can't restore my account due to violation of terms of services and for fraudulent behavior.

I hope you understand my situation, I was thinking about an idea for the past weeks and decided to start working on it today, but got blocked in the process.
I also tried another Gmail address, with the actual card, but the same thing happened.
Now I have two blocked accounts, I assume ip banned as well, and no way of even starting my project.

I was really into making something special and this would have been a chance for one of my projects to see a broader audience.

I hope someone could help me.
Thank you in advance!

Daniel Zaltsman • Dec 28 '20

Hey Nagy - hoping to help you here so you can participate! Can you please shoot me an email with your account email information included? Daniel (at) DigitalOcean (.) com. Thanks!

Nagy Szabolcs • Dec 28 '20

Thank you Daniel!

I successfully created my account! 😄

Nagy Szabolcs • Dec 28 '20

Thank you! I sent you an email.

Milind Singh • Jan 2 '21 • Edited

I am trying to deploy my gridsome app with Digital Ocean Static Site, but failing with build process, any idea ?

Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
15:41:55 /workspace/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-722234/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libX11-xcb.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Anton Gunnarsson • Jan 8 '21

Is it supported to declare a redis instance in a app.yaml-file and deploy it with the CLI?

When I add it like below it fails without giving a specific error:

name: hackathon-runner
region: ams
static_sites:
  - ...
databases:
  - name: hackathon-runner-redis
     engine: REDIS
     production: true
     cluster_name: hackathon-runner-db-cluster

Hulya • Jan 5 '21 • Edited

Hi, I am trying to deploy my Gatsby app but I have Strapi plugin as localhost:1337 in the config file. I have tried to deploy strapi project from my github following Chris' video.. But it gave me an error. Is there any guide about how I can connect Gatsby to Strapi with Digital Ocean? Thanks a lot!

Chris Sev • Jan 5 '21

hey there! are you able to deploy Strapi and see the admin dashboard once its deployed?

Hulya • Jan 6 '21 • Edited

Hi, Chris! No, I couldn't deploy. I'm getting an error
Your build job failed because it returned a non-zero exit code. See the logs for details. Error code: BuildJobExitNonZero

I have created env/production folders, database.js, and server.js like in the video. Used the same commands for deploying the app and connected to PostgreSQL.

Hulya • Jan 6 '21 • Edited

Hi, Chris! I have fixed it thanks to other resources, now it looks like Strapi is deployed, but when I try to access the page it is not showing me the admin panel like in the workshop. How can I connect to the admin page? Thanks.

Chris Sev • Jan 6 '21

looks like you may need to

npm install pg

in your project so that it can connect to the postgres database

Hulya • Jan 6 '21

It is still not working, i deployed the page with "pg" installed, same page ..

Luís Silva • Dec 21 '20

Hey, I filled the form to get the credits in order to participate in the Hackaton
But so far I didn't received any email or credits in my digital ocean account ?
How long is the wait on this ?

Thanks for any help in advance :D

Luís Silva • Dec 21 '20

Never mind just arrived xD

Chris Sev • Dec 21 '20

Glad to hear it. I just pushed out the latest round of credits. Happy hacking!

Roman Mikhailov • Dec 11 '20

Hello, could you clarify this requirement?

Use a permissive license for your code (ex: MIT, Apache-2)

do we have to share the code with the reviewers? Will it be made public to a general community?

I’d like to participate, but the project will grow into a business that won’t be open source. How can I protect the IP and still participate?

Chris Sev • Dec 11 '20

Would the "Commons Clause" license fit? That's acceptable also:

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Dec 11 '20

Hi Roman! We have updated this item in the announcement post to be more license specific. I hope this helps!

Roman Mikhailov • Dec 12 '20

Thanks Chris and Gracie, yeah it is helpful and I think the Commons Clause will do.

Arpan Adhikari • Dec 13 '20

I have added my submission
dev.to/arpan45/simple-quiz-applica...

Will there be any confirmation if it is valid or not.

I have followed all the steps mentioned. But still asking just for confirmation.

Bobby Iliev • Dec 22 '20

Hi there 👋

As long as your application is deployed on the DigitalOcean App platform and as long as you have created your post on DEV you should be fine 🙌

Minh-Phuc Tran • Dec 29 '20

HI DOAP, building a small that needs a web service (Node.js) and a worker Docker container. The Node.js service needs to access the worker container. I'm struggling to find documentation about this, try to add workers to my app spec but doesn't work, please help, here is my deploy config: https://github.com/phuctm97/img-node/blob/master/.do/deploy.template.yaml

Jon Friesen • Jan 4 '21

👋 Minh-Phuc

Workers cannot be accessed by a service internally or externally. A possible solution is to have your worker reach out for work to do from your service. You can use your service name as a DNS record to make accessing your service easier and faster.

For example, if my service is called app I can access it from my worker using http://app.

aryan040501 • Feb 2 '21

I had submitted a project and I didn't even get a mail for participating. Can you please help.
Link to project template: dev.to/aryan040501/digital-ocean-s...

Milind Singh • Jan 2 '21

My gridsome static site build fails in Digital Ocean, any idea?

/workspace/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-722234/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libX11-xcb.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

VIMAL KUMAR • Dec 13 '20

Can i Use my old Project ?

Bobby Iliev • Dec 13 '20

Hey 👋

I believe that it should be ok as long as it is deployed on the App platform.

Make sure to add the "Deploy to DigitalOcean" Button to your repo for bonus points 🙌

VIMAL KUMAR • Dec 13 '20

Thanks 🙌

Bobby Iliev • Dec 13 '20

No problem! Good luck with this and have fun building!

Vicente G. Reyes • Dec 17 '20 • Edited

SOLVED IT

Had to redeploy a new app to fix the issue.

Help!

My site is showing this:

It was ok last night but when I checked now, it showed this.

It can be accessed with rebrand-g34no.ondigitalocean.app but not on studio.icvn.tech

What's wrong with this?

Shajia Abidi • Jan 3 '21

Hello,

I have an app in which I am using Node.js and MongoDB in the backend and React in the frontend (and auth0). And I am having trouble deploying using Digital Ocean.

I followed this page here(digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform...), but when I get to the Configure Your App part (Step 3/4), it doesn't detect anything. I was wondering if someone can help me with it. Thanks.

Abhinav Dubey • Dec 15 '20

Hello, #teamDO,
I have a simple doubt regarding the registration and submission of our project for this hackathon.

How we will get to know that we are successfully registered for the hackathon? Weather we will get any kind of confirmation mail or something else ???
How to form teams and how to make team submissions for the project?

Bobby Iliev • Dec 22 '20

As long as your application is deployed on the DigitalOcean App platform and as long as you have created your post on DEV you should be fine 🙌

Group submissions are allowed but note that the prize will be shared. For more information on that you can check the official DEV Hackathon rules here:

dev.to/page/official-hackathon-rules

Roman Mikhailov • Dec 12 '20

How long does it take to receive credits for DO after submitting the form?

Bobby Iliev • Dec 13 '20

Hi there,

You would receive the credits within 2 business days after filling up the form.

Good luck with the hackathon and have fun building!

Nethmi Rodrigo • Jan 22 '21

Hi there! I submitted a project that I did along with a team. I tagged the team members usernames in the article I submitted and although I received a badge my team members are yet to receive. dev.to/nethmirodrigo/advisor-do-ha... is the link to my post. Did I tag them wrong or will they be getting the badges in time as well?

Olaoluwa Mustapha • Dec 22 '20

Hey guys 👋

Super excited about the hackathon. However, would a pizza delivery app be a good fit for any of the categories? If not, what about an invoice template generator?

Bobby Iliev • Dec 22 '20

Hi there 👋

Both ideas sound great! I believe that both would fit into the Built for Business category.

Martin André • Dec 11 '20

Is it possible to have some secret for Docker using App Platform ?
I can't find any doc for that..

Jon Friesen • Dec 12 '20

👋 Martin,

We have some basic documentation here, we also have a sample project.

If we cannot detect your projects type using buildpacks, we will fallback to a Dockerfile if it's located in the root of your project. In the event that you'd prefer to use a Dockerfile instead of BuildPacks you can push configure this using am app.yaml, here is an example of one:

name: sample-dockerfile
services:
- dockerfile_path: Dockerfile
  github:
    branch: main
    deploy_on_push: true
    repo: digitalocean/sample-dockerfile
  name: sample-dockerfile

Here is some documentation that covers creating apps with our command line tool doctl:

Reference for the DigitalOcean Command-Line Interface (doctl) with App Platform

Hope this helps! Happy Hacking 📣

Abel Mathew • Dec 11 '20

Hello,
Can we participate in this as a team?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Dec 11 '20

Hello! Group submissions are allowed but note that the prize will be shared.

Antariksh Verma • Dec 18 '20 • Edited

Hey guys, how to host a MERN stack app on Digital Ocean App Platform. Could you help me?

Suvin Nimnaka • Jan 27 '21

Hello! I didnt receive the badge even though I made a submission. Any idea why? 🤔

Ishaan Sheikh • Dec 13 '20

If I create an app but not upload it on App platform, is that a valid submission as I don't have a credit card and none of my debit card is working with PayPal 🙁

Bobby Iliev • Dec 13 '20

Hello 👋

Your application has to be deployed to the DigitalOcean App Platform.

Suvin Nimnaka • Jan 31 '21

Hi, I didnt get my participation badge yet. Any idea why?

Debashish Palit • Jan 2 '21

Hi Chris,
I submitted the form to get the free credit, but have not received any email. When will I get an email?
Rgds.

Bobby Iliev • Jan 2 '21

Hi there 👋

I believe that the credits are distributed within 2 business days. But you should get it soon.

Hardik Chopra • Dec 23 '20

If a team is participating,

Does every member gets a Badge on dev.to profile?
Does every member needs to post dohackathon posts or just one of the team member needs to?

Jess Lee • Dec 23 '20

Hey @hardikchopra242 , we only need one submission post from the team but please include all participant usernames within the post and you'll all receive badges!