I’m really not sure if I should deploy it on Heroku since it will involve learning using git commands to work with remote servers and so am looking for alternatives. Preferably somewhere where I can pull/push files using FTP
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I’m really not sure if I should deploy it on Heroku since it will involve learning using git commands to work with remote servers and so am looking for alternatives. Preferably somewhere where I can pull/push files using FTP
There is nothing magical required of a hosting platform to be able to deploy a server-side Facebook app. Heroku is great and easy, but any platform that runs PHP (for example) would be viable.
But don’t forget that you can also create a Facebook app with client-side HTML5 & JavaScript. In that scenario, (in the extreme) your host merely needs to serve up static files.
And finally, you can get a long way on a local developer machine. The main challenge is Open Graph objects (which must be visible to the outside world), but otherwise quite viable