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What to Expect

How to deploy different kinds of apps

Continuous Deployment

Hooking up databases, APIs, and services

Domains, DNS, a little security (environment keys), getting it live

Awesome (free) tools you can use today!

What NOT to Expect

Continuous Integration - no testing and code validation

Front-end or back-end development frameworks or techniques

Logging, metrics, scaling, and durability

What I assume

You know how to make web apps (somehow)

You know how to use Git

You are comfortable with a command line

Let's Go!

Level 1

Code Fiddles

CodeSandbox (🔥🔥🔥)

CodePen

Glitch

ReplIt

Level 2

Static Site

Part 1: Raw HTML + Github Pages

Level 2

Static Site

When it's good

You don't need a server or databases.

You aren't worried about load times.

You don't need to render HTML on the server.

You are using a client-side framework, like React, Angular, Vue, etc.

Level 2

Static Site

When it's good

You have lots of static data (like a blog)

You have tooling to auto-deploy when the data changes

You want your load-time to be fast.

Level 3

Server-Rendered

NextJS + Now

Level 3

Server-Rendered

When it's good

You have lots of dynamic content (like comments)

You want load-time to be fast

You can afford a web server (or are okay with the limitations of free)

Level 4

Server App + Database

NodeJS + Heroku

Level 4

Server App + Database

When it's good

When you need a full-blown server backend, especially not NodeJS

When you run long-running processes or background processes

When you need to support websockets or your server needs to stay on

Lite Servers

Heroku

Now.sh

SaaS Serverless

Firebase

Netlify

Static Hosting

Surge.sh

Netlify

Github Pages

Cloud

AWS, Google Cloud, Azure

Infrastructure

CloudFlare

CI/CD

Travis CI

CircleCI

PaaS

AirTable

Twilio

Error Monitoring

Sentry.io