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title: Create an App
description: Start using the WP Engine Headless Platform
url: https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/headless-platform/getting-started/create-app/
image: https://developers.wpengine.com/og/docs/headless-platform/getting-started/create-app.png
---

# Create an App

Once you’ve gone through the steps in this guide, you’ll have a Headless Platform app, with one front-end environment, that has been deployed to the web. Any changes pushed to the connected repository branch will automatically trigger a re-deploy.

## Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you have:

- A WP Engine [Headless Platform](https://wpengine.com/atlas) account
- An account on a supported repository provider - [GitHub](https://github.com/), [Bitbucket](https://bitbucket.com/) or [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/)

## Setting Up a New App

To create a new app, follow these steps:

1. Log into the WP Engine [User Portal](https://my.wpengine.com/).
2. Select the `Headless Platform` tab.
3. Click the `+ Create app` button.

![Button to create a new app](https://developers.wpengine.com/_astro/create-app-button.C9O1egGW_1NmniT.webp)

4. Decide if you will proceed with a Blueprint or an existing repository.

![Options to create a new app including “Select a Blueprint” or “Pull from repository”](https://developers.wpengine.com/_astro/new-headless-app.CSZpI-2i_2v9MHN.webp)

Our Headless Platform allows you to deploy custom JavaScript applications, but also provides you with deployable Blueprints for popular types of sites. Blueprints use the [Faust.js](https://faustjs.org/) framework based on [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/). Our Headless Platform also supports other frameworks that run on Node.js. You can choose which of these you want to use to build your app.

[Using a Blueprint](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/headless-platform/getting-started/deploy-from-blueprint/)Select this option if you do not have a headless WordPress front-end site yet or want to try WP Engine's pre-built templates.

[Using a Repository](https://developers.wpengine.com/docs/headless-platform/getting-started/deploy-from-existing-repo/)Select this option if you have a headless WordPress frontend repository ready to deploy.

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