I am sorry it has been a while since I last posted. I sort of drifted away from this blog while focusing on other projects. I had a visitor who inspired me to keep going. I will be writing some articles about APIs very soon.
Data is such an important part of our lives. As developers, we rely on data to provide services and features with our applications. Front-end development is fun as we get to mess around with the visual appearance of our web applications. Recently I got into back-end development because without it, we would be severely limited in the types of applications we may provide.
Full stack development is quite complex and can be intimidating. One thing that infuriated me about the online community of tutorials is the consistent promotion of creating full-stack applications hosted via the free tier of services such as Heroku or Digital Ocean.
I have asked a few people how to host full stack Node applications on my own shared hosting account and was greeted with no responses. Not a single person replied. I searched and searched online and found one tutorial after another promoting hosting on third-party free services.
The free tier of these services is definitely not suitable for production. Visitors must wait for the service or container to start up before the data may be sent to the application. The paid tiers are quite expensive.
After a lot of research and testing, I finally learned how to host full-stack applications on shared hosting with Node JS. I will be sharing these tips in upcoming posts.
