I’ve been toying with replit for a few weeks off and on and decided I’d use it to learn the workings of APIs. So I started a fastapi program and it works fine. I began to read about deploying it (I had no idea what could be done with replit.com, not that I’d even deploy this toy) and that’s where the confusion started.
I have been able to access the API from pretty much any device. I can use curl from my phone, (pydroid) or I can access it from my phone using JS (termux)or python code. And I can access it from my computer using a browser, py scripts, and JS as well. Yet ive never deployed it. Yes it has to wake up, but I can still access it as well as a bare bones NodeJS server I wrote a while back that uses no framework.
Is this normal that they can always be accessed without deployment, using the repl.co address? After the wakeup?
(There was a link here, but it will not let me post it. Keeps saying only 2 links for new users and I only ever tried to use one, if this goes through I’ll link it in the comments.)
Or is this totally normal? At this point I am assuming that this is normal with the wakeup period, and deployment stops that.
Reading through the docs it sounded like no one would be able to access my work unless I deployed it, or they went via the coverpage, through replit com. But clearly, it can be accessed in several different ways.
Forgive my ignorance… I’m learning and there is so much about backend to take in, and I seem to be in awe most of the time.
Thanks