Currently deploying to app platform requires me to commit code to a specific git branch, after which code can be auto-deployed. This makes sense for a production system, after you have already ironed out the devops questions, but it makes development and especially initial setup very challenging.

I think there should be a way to either push code from my local filesystem, to test what the app publish looks like, without the need to commit code to my repo. I think there are two good ways to support this, either a way to use the app platform runtime on my local machine, or to push my local project folder to use for the build remotely. Either would be a big help.

For reference, i've been mostly using app platform for docker, and functions in go, and provisioning in both terraform and with spec files.