App Platform

At the moment, serving static SPA React app with react router via CDN works as long as the user reaches the app through the root url. If the user reloads a certain current URL, however, it will display a 404. To fix this we can add a request url re-write such that /some/path/ would be replaced by / However adding all those edpoints one by one is impossible, especially if there are url parameters used by that app. Vercel allows this, for example, by specifying rewrites with wildcards { "rewrites": [ {"source": "/(.*)", "destination": "/"} ] } This is not possible in DO, prevents us from using App platform to serve our frontend app via CDN

Please allow app platform apps to use block storage volumes and not just spaces for permanent storage that is not erased when app is re-deployed.

Currently Digital Ocean adds both X-Forwarded-For and X-Forwarded-Proto to the request when proxying it through it's infrastructure so our application can figure out where the request was originally made to in the internet, but the absence of the HTTP port forces us to hack the request object and guess the port where it was made to. You may ask why would we need the port, well the answer is simple, in the PHP PSRs it is denifed that any request made to a URL that does not uses the default port (80 for HTTP and 443 to HTTPS) needs to include the port in the URL so our server recognizes requests made using HTTPS in port 80 and includes it in the URL making it so we have to manually remove the port from the URL in that scenario. Including the X-Forwarded-Proto would make it for the spec (since internet requests to any DO app uses the 443 port which is later redirected internally) and would our lives a lot easier.

Open the Firewall management tool to allow for traffic moderation of the App Platform.

We should be able to disable the starter domain in App Platform or create a 301 redirect to a custom domain. With this not being an option static sites are always duplicated, which is a terrible SEO practice. At the very least it would be nice being able to set a robots.txt file in the starter domain to prevent search engines from indexing it.

Being able to integrate Apps into a VPC together with droplets and managed databases, would allow secure / private access to them. Maybe even kubernetes could be integrated.

Bun support

This is the single reason, why i wont migrate my apps to DO. All competitors have this trivial feature: fly io, render and heroku. Instead of building new features, focus on improving the UX / DX of existing ones

currently app platform docker containers cannot be added a drive as a mount. only Droplets support this This is very basic and really needed feature.

Vercel has a build step in which you can run a custom bash script to make sure you want to build and deploy the most recent commit. An example usage of this is for monorepos. If you have both both a frontend and backend application in one repo, but you only deploy the backend in Digital Ocean, you will only want to build and deploy IF the server code was affected. When using a tool like Nx Workspace, it is difficult to detect when changes affect a specific app. You can use tools like nx-ignore to check to see if a specific project was affected by the most recent commit. Here is a link to an article: https://vercel.com/guides/how-do-i-use-the-ignored-build-step-field-on-vercel