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Deploying a React / Node app on Linode with Nginx

I wrote a new project - but this isn’t the blog post about the project. If and When I write it, you’ll be able to see it here. No, this is the blog post about how I got the new project up and running on Linode. Let’s go. Starting at the “finish” Web apps are never really finished, I think they’re at some point good enough to try deployment - like, good enough, but with room to grow. So it also came to be for my latest project, a React/Node.js app where I tried my hand at GraphQL data fetching. So the app was sort of finished enough (and during deploy it showed that it really wasn’t), so I went ahead to get it deployed. ...

March 27, 2024 · 11 min · 2267 words · jmchor

I'm the Developer Now

Or: how we finished bootcamp with a React social media platform So, this is it! Bootcamp over, certification in the mail - you are now a full-stack web developer. And to be honest - that is really, really cool. I think most of us who have built their last projects are happy that the 24 weeks are over - it took a lot of time and effort from us that we spent coding and studying and worrying about coding and studying - it is nice to do something else for a change in our freetime other than that. But by no means do I want to suggest that I did not enjoy it - because I really, really did. ...

July 1, 2023 · 7 min · 1379 words · jmchor