Modern apps place high demands on front-end developers. Web apps require complex functionality, and the lion’s share of that work is falling to front-end devs:
Continuous Integration (CI) workflows are considered a best practice these days. As in, you work with your version control system (Git), and as you do, CI is doing work for you like running tests, sending notifications, and deploying code. That …
Here’s a little direct product endorsement for ya: I literally use Buddy for deployment on all my projects.
Buddy isn’t just a deployment tool, we’ll get to that, but it’s something that Buddy does very well and definitely a reason …
I first heard of Flywheel through their product Local, which is a native app for working on WordPress sites. If you ask around for what people use for that kind of work, you’ll get all sorts of answers, but an …
Deploying a React app to Microsoft Azure is simple. Except that… it isn’t. The devil is in the details. If you’re looking to deploy a create-react-app — or a similar style front-end JavaScript framework that requires pushState-based routing — …
In the grand tradition of every single poll question I’ve ever posted, the poll below has a has a fundamental flaw. In this case, there is no option between “In the last month” and “Never” but, alas, the results are …
It’s a common situation: you create a site and it’s ready to go. It’s all on GitHub. But you’re not really done. You need to set up deployment. You need to set up a process that runs your tests …
I got a great email from a fellow named Josh Long the other day. He is, in his words, “relatively new to web design” and was a bit stuck on the concept of getting a site live. I should …
Of all the projects I’ve worked in the last few years, there’s one that stands out as my favorite: I wrote a WordPress plugin called Great Eagle (Tolkien reference) that allows my team to install and update themes and plugins …
In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven’t had much experience with this, so forgive me if it’s a bit rough.
We …
