Help setting up
Hi! So I am new to back-end, decided to learn it via a tutorial
Can anyone help me get started? I've tried several things as to a workable demo (as that is required in step 1), but so far I've got no luck correctly launching the page outside of the Live Server from vsc
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What are you trying to learn in backend?
Well, just the basics of it all, I'm not sure which things I'll see in this tutorial
Tho I am assume that I'll get a lot of valuable knowledge from it that I can ustilize
but yh , Ive tried teh github pages, Ive tried netlify, but I am struggling to set it up properly and get it to work
So could youhelpmecorrectly setting this up ?
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This is more of a front-end problem so thats where youd want to post fromtend quesrions #front-end . Can you link your github repo? It should just take a few clicks to deploy on netlify. What's happening when you try?
I'm not a big fan of freecodecamp tbh. I don't think they take the time to teach that they should.
This may be more helpful https://youtu.be/i9qCmQ2EeUA?si=6HqafrcuSZR__SHy
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well, when inpost it on netlify its saying the page doesn't exist (probably because it cant reach the index.html which is in views folder)
thisnis my guess because when I change the path to go to views folder it does load the page but without yhr css and probably all the other necrssary files
I will post my repo in a moment
when I use the github pages its just showing the readme instead of the index.html
https://github.com/BrightDN/boilerplate-npm
I kinda feel I copied the repo incorrectly as well ngl ... xd
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https://brights-back-end.netlify.app im getting page not found here btw, as I explained earlier
From how I understand it, looking at the files, it should look for
server.js
and that one should redirect it to the index.html page
Maybe I have to somehow specify what file it has to look for?
well, no because it would look for package.json right? in there I see the node server.js
wait, so do I have to set the directory things up in a certain way?
on netlify i mean
@clevermissfox while that video was most informative, I'm afraid it didn't help me resolve my issueyou need to set up a backend server, if you are doing it in github.
There are some free options that you could use, I recommend https://render.com/ they have a nice free tier.
Or you could use the replit starter they provide https://replit.com/github/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-npm
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the gihub project looks fine
I don't think you can deploy this project on netlify, it's a node server
I see, so only static html/css/js can be placed on netlify?
I have managed to get it to work with the replit thannk you
netlify you can use most front end frameworks too, like Next, Nuxt, Astro, etc
nice good luck learning back-end š