Gain insights into web deployment, explore essential steps for going live, discover tools, security measures, SEO techniques, and deploy a sample site using Google Cloud Platform.

We can find a plethora of content on the internet related to web development in many different languages. However, what are we supposed to do once our web application has been created? The next step is to make it live on the world wide web. This course takes us deep into the world of web deployment, specifying all the necessary steps needed to make our website available to users. 

Learn about the different tools, security measures and deployment platforms available to us in the modern era. This comprehensive guide also teaches us about important web concepts such as Search Engine Optimization and server maintenance. Furthermore, for your ease, we'll be deploying a sample website using the Google Cloud Platform! So get your web applications ready because they are about to go live.

A Complete Guide to Launching Your Website: From Local to Live

For the purpose of this lesson, we will move a simple React app to our VM and access it through the internet. Here is the repository on GitHub:

Let's move our Git repository to our VM instance.

Introduction

Going Live

Domain Name

Web Hosting

Publish Your Website

Testing & Maintenance

Post Launch Checklist

Where to go from here

Cloning a Repository