Hey there folks 
Unfortunately my poor old pc refuses to cooperate as docker is just too much for it to handle. Can I still use wappler to develop my apps or wont it work? I am using node js
Hello,
You don’t need Docker for node.js development. Wappler has its own node.js server integrated, so you can use it directly when you setup a node.js project.
@Teodor thank goodness!!! having soooooo much fun with wappler 
of course am eye-balling a new pc so hopefully can work with docker soon
regards Linda
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might you have a tutorial on how to check that the node server is running as it should? I am hitting run, but it’s not running so I am guessing that I am missing a step
Can you post a screenshot of your target configuration in your projects settings as well as what you see exactly in Wappler when the node dev target is selected?
This may help:
thank you so much Ben I am SUCH a newbie that I need all the help I can get
my apologogies just discovered that I hadn’t even installed the dependencies so Wappler let me know that it was the issue, all is well now…green lights accross my dashboard
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Hello, I would like to make my contribution, because yesterday I saw several videos on youtube on this topic:
1-> You can use HERUKO and Google Firebase to host your projects for free! No charge! I just don't know if they create a database too, but for the right static site.
NOTE: Does anyone know if it is possible to create DB?
Link to video-tutorial on how to connect
Heroku:
Google Firebase:
2-> With XAMPP, it is an installer of all the applications needed for us to run a development environment (it has Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl).
There is already an integration of it with phpmyadmin (today it is no longer necessary due to the implemented database manager), but we can get a sense of how our table is seeing it through phpmyadmin.
The link to the product (free) is: XAMPP Installers and Downloads for Apache Friends
Here you can see a video tutorial in Portuguese-Brazil on the topic:
I hope I can have helped you in something!
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Hey there thanks a mil for this I was actually contemplating trying either heroku or firebase. I’ll set one of them up and report back when I get it to work because I am using nodejs at least I think that heroku actually ships with a database integration
Heroku provides a free tier of PostgreSQL and there are two 3rd party addons(jawsdb and cleardb) for mysql/mariadb also with a free tier.
Nonetheless the limits of all the free DB options in Heroku are very low.
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ahhh that wasn’t good regarding the limits thanks for the heads up
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