I made a free guide for people who want to learn to deploy code
A friend wanted to learn how to build and deploy an app. They had zero experience so we started from scratch. As these things usually go I started explaining things over messages and quickly realis...

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A friend wanted to learn how to build and deploy an app. They had zero experience so we started from scratch. As these things usually go I started explaining things over messages and quickly realised I was writing a guide. What is it? FirstDeploy is a free, step-by-step guide that goes from "what is a browser actually doing" all the way to deploying a full-stack app for complete beginners. One thing I realised quite quickly is that I speak to more and more people who would have never touched code before the 'AI' revolution, but who now want to understand how to get something deployed. I'm a Unix engineer turned engineering lead. I'm not a teacher. I just wanted to make something that would have helped my friend get going without having to wade through a million Medium articles and outdated YouTube tutorials. What it covers Three paths, each 12 chapters: First Steps: Set up VS Code, get GitHub Copilot working, learn enough HTML/CSS/JS to be dangerous, build a React app, learn Git, and d