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4 Free hosting platforms for python web app with step-by-step process

Yash Makan on November 26, 2021

Hi developers, I am Yash Makan and in today's post, we are going to discuss 4 platforms where you can host your flask or Django app. If you've comp...

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thunderjaw • Jun 15 '22

I have a question, when I tried to deploy the web app, the error "Error: The result of "builder.build" must include an output property for "@liudonghua123/now-flask"." appears. I've tried searching for a solution but to no avail. Do you have any solutions for this?

Yash Makan • Jun 15 '22 • Edited

Yes, I too faced this issue a while back and what i'll suggest you is to change the vercel.json to something like this... This will probaly solve the issue and will deploy smoothly... 😁
Do let me know if this works for you, then I'll add this in the blog article as well for future readers

{
  "version": 2,
  "builds": [
      {
          "src": "*.py",
          "use": "@vercel/python"
      }
  ],
  "routes": [
      {
          "src": "(.*)",
          "dest": "main.py"
      }
  ]
}

dooryan • Jun 17 '22 • Edited

hi. I also encountered the same problem when using "@liudonghua123/now-flask". I've tried using "@vercel/python" I only got this error: "Due to builds existing in your configuration file, the Build and Development Settings defined in your Project
Settings will not apply." ,and when I tried to preview I got this error:

This Serverless Function has crashed.
Your connection is working correctly.
Vercel is working correctly.
500: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
Code: FUNCTION_INVOCATION_FAILED

how do I solve this?

Yash Makan • Jun 17 '22

You can check the logs in vercel, this means that some error is encountered in python script. Also, if you are have app.run() in python script then also the app will not work. You have to remove app.run() as well. Moreover check the logs to find out the error...

Mudit Gupta • Nov 23 '22

then apart from app.run() what should i write, should I comment it and then deploy? because I thought, app.run() initiates the running process of flask app. Do let me know.

AS1 • Aug 28 '22

delete Heroku....

Rachit Khurana • Nov 26 '21 • Edited

Few others:
railway.app/

okteto.com/

Yash Makan • Nov 26 '21

Thanks for sharing! 😀

Rachit Khurana • Nov 26 '21

I personally use heroku & qovery. One of my django site is on heroku and another one is on qovery.
They both are nice.
I have experienced database loss on qovery.
But heroku is much more reliable.