Help Thread — DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon on DEV

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 of DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon on DEV 🎉

If you get stuck or run into a question about App Platform, describe it in this thread for asynchronous assistance from members of the DigitalOcean team — they'll be monitoring this post regularly!

Happy coding ❤️

Comments

[aryan040501]

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...

[Suvin Nimnaka]

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

[Suvin Nimnaka]

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

[Nethmi Rodrigo]

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?

[Peter Dave Hello͌ͯͦ̉]

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]

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]

Cool! Thanks for the lighting speed response Bobby⚡️!

[Bobby]

No problem and good luck!

[Peter Dave Hello͌ͯͦ̉]

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 ...

[Anton Gunnarsson]

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]

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]

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

[Hulya]

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]

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]

looks like you may need to

npm install pg

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

[Hulya]

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

[Shajia Abidi]

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.

[Debashish Palit]

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]

Hi there 👋

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

[Milind Singh]

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