Zeit is a great little company that aims to “Make Cloud Computing as Easy and Accessible as Mobile computing”, and they’re doing that just with their relatively new service, Now. Now aims to make deploying Node and Docker apps as simple as typing now into your terminal. It also allows deploying static websites, which is what I’ll be using it for in this little tutorial.
Prerequisites This tutorial assumes that you’ve got a Zeit account, and have some familiarity with GitLab Review Apps, GitLab CI, and that you have a GitLab Runner setup and ready to go.
Bréf: where I try to explain something briefly.
This weekend (9 to 11 Dec.), I competed in the Telstra Cloud Hackathon, in a team with three friends (Gabriel, Terence, and Daniel).
We built Jift, a product recommendation engine that uses your friends’ Facebook likes to recommend products, along with a (unbuilt) Secret Santa component.
Our hack used ReactJS on the frontend, with some very messy data-binding (courtesy of yours truly, but it’s a hack!
I have a pretty terrible habit of buying new apps very frequently. My friends can vouch for this. Following new purchases, they’re often inundated with messages from me about how ‘good’ an app is, and that they should go buy it ASAP, even if it’s not relevant to them at all.
Recently, my friend Theo bought a new Mac, and asked if I had any recommendations for him. I wrote up a list and sent it to him, but I thought I might publish it on here for my future reference, and to have something to direct people to.
