#deploy tags

With the demise of the Heroku free tier looming I've been searching for an alternative place to deploy simple web apps. It looks like Fly.io is emerging as a frontrunner, so I thought I'd play around with it and document my experience…

I see the same problem happen again and again to juniors building their first Single-Page App (SPA). Everything works fine locally, but as soon as they deploy to a hosting platform like Netlify they get loads of "404 Not found" errors trying to load pages. There are lots of resources documenting how to fix this, so I'm also going to try to explain why this happens too…

I recently rebuilt the Founders and Coders website using the Eleventy static site generator. I hit an interesting problem making an events page: I wanted the page to be up-to-date every day, which is hard when your site is just a collection of HTML files. I could have used client-side JS to fetch the event schedule and render them, but that felt like cheating when the rest of the site is fully static. Instead I decided to rebuild and re-deploy the site at midnight every day…