Quickstart

Import a GitHub project, activate a plan, and get it deployed.

Prerequisites

• A Droplet account — sign up free
• A GitHub repository (GitLab and Bitbucket are not available yet)

Step 1 - Open New Application

From your dashboard, click New Application. GitHub is the currently supported provider. If GitHub is not connected, choose Connect GitHub account and authorize access.

Step 2 - Import and configure the repository

Search the repository list and click Import. Confirm the application name, production branch, and detected framework. Names must use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.

# Initialize a new project locally
$ git init my-app && cd my-app
$ echo "Hello, Droplet!" > index.html
$ git add . && git commit -m "initial commit"
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/you/my-app
$ git push -u origin main

Step 3 - Choose a plan and pay

Select Starter or Standard. New applications receive one ₦3,000 credit valid for 30 days. The credit makes the first Starter payment ₦0 and reduces the first Standard payment to ₦2,000. A temporary ₦50 card verification may appear and is refunded after authorization. Payment is required before the application is activated and provisioned.

Droplet auto-detects most frameworks. For a Next.js app, the typical defaults are:

Step 4 - Provision and deploy

After Paystack confirms payment, Droplet provisions the application, connects the repository, and starts the first deployment. Frontend applications normally use a pages.dev URL; API and some Standard full-stack applications may use a workers.devURL instead. The exact URL is shown in the application dashboard.

$ git push origin main
  Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
  Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
  Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 324 bytes | 324.00 KiB/s, done.
✓ pages.dev
  Deployment finished in 23s