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# Hosting your first application
Deploy a one-file application to CARTO and open it with your CARTO login
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**Private Preview:** Hosted Apps is available to selected accounts during its Private Preview. To request access, contact your CARTO representative.
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In this quick start guide, you will deploy your first application with [Hosted Apps](/carto-for-developers/key-concepts/hosting-your-application.md): a single HTML file with a map of retail stores, which CARTO serves behind your organization's login.
## Install the CARTO CLI
Install the [CARTO CLI](/carto-for-agents/cli/installation.md), version 0.12.0 or later, and log in:
```bash
carto auth login
```
## Create the application
Create a folder named `my-first-app`, with a file named `index.html` inside:
```html
My first hosted app
```
The application reads the credentials of the user who opens it from `carto-info.json`, a file that CARTO serves next to it, and uses them to show a table from the [CARTO Data Warehouse](/carto-user-manual/connections/carto-data-warehouse.md). There is no token in the code.
## Deploy it
```bash
carto app deploy my-first-app --name "My first app"
```
The CLI uploads the folder and prints the URL of your application, ending in `/app/my-first-app/`. Open it in your browser: CARTO asks you to log in if you aren't already, and the map shows the retail stores, loaded with your own credentials.
## Share it
New applications are private. To share yours with everyone in your organization, run:
```bash
carto app share my-first-app --org
```
They can now open the same URL and log in with their CARTO account.
## What's next?
* [Hosting your application in CARTO](/carto-for-developers/guides/build-a-hosted-application.md) builds a complete application with Vite, including local development, Named Sources and versions.
* [Hosted Apps](/carto-for-developers/key-concepts/hosting-your-application.md) in Key concepts explains how hosting works and when to use it.
* The [Hosted Apps reference](/carto-for-developers/reference/hosted-apps.md) describes everything CARTO reads, serves and enforces.
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