20+ Zeit-now Resources for Web Developers in 2021

Docker containers wrap a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything needed to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything that can be installed on a server. This guarantees that the software will always run the same, regardless of its environment.

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Zeit’s mission statement is to ‘Make Cloud computing as easy and accessible as Mobile computing.’ To that end, they’ve released some pretty amazing and powerful tools. In this course we’re going to take a look at `now`, their deployment tool, to see why it’s hands-down the simplest way to launch node applications, docker containers and even static files to the cloud.


We’ll also dig into some of now’s more advanced capabilities, including host aliasing, environment variables and integration with hosted databases.

Deploy Web Apps with Zeit Now

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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Now by Zeit has recently been updated and now supports multi-language monorepos. In this lesson we'll build and deploy a simple app with an API powered by Node.js and Go.

If you want to follow along with this lesson, you will need to install [now-cli](https://github.com/zeit/now-cli).

Deploy a Monorepo to Now V2

Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.

Deploy a project on Vercel (formerly ZEIT) from a GitHub repository

`now` allows you to take your JavaScript (Node.js) or Docker powered websites, applications and services to the cloud with ease,
speed and reliability. In practical terms, any directory that contains a `package.json` or `Dockerfile` can be transported to the cloud with one command: `now`.


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Use Zeit’s `now` to quickly and easily share static files by making them accessible to anyone with the URL.

Deploy static assets with Zeit’s Now

Zeit allows you to expose the inner working’s of your deployment’s source code to aid in debugging or understanding how your code works. Learn how to configure and use this powerful window into your live behavior.

View source on your remote Zeit Now server

Often your project will require some secret keys or tokens - for instance, API keys or database authentication information. Learn how to safely and easily deploy secrets to now, and how to expose them as environment variables that your applications can load without making them public to the world.

Configure secrets and environment variables with Zeit’s Now

If you need to persist data using `now`, it’s recommended that you use a hosted database service. In this lesson we'll create a new, free MongoDB database on http://mlab.com and wire it up to use with our node.js app running on Zeit's `now` hosting service.


Use a hosted database with Zeit’s Now

Because `now` deploys are immutable, you can’t push changes to a running instance - you just push a new instance, which means you get a new URL. But doesn’t that mean your URL is always changing? How do you share a link to your application? By using `now alias` to point a custom name to a specific deployment.

Use Zeit’s Now to point a custom name to a specific deployment

Using now’s `alias` command you can point your own domain name to any now deployment. In this lesson I'll actually buy a new domain name and configure it to work with now, showing you every step along the way.

Setup a custom domain name with Zeit’s Now

Use Zeit’s now to deploy a docker container to the cloud quickly and easily. We will see that the process is exactly the same as deploying a Node project. This lesson will also show how log information is displayed on the generated url by `Now` while the app is being deployed.

Deploy a Docker project with Zeit’s Now

Use Zeit’s `now` to deploy a node application from your local machine to a remote cloud service in moments. 

Deploy a Node project with Zeit’s Now

Applications require a lot of sensitive information. Database passwords, API keys and secrets used for signing JWTs, just to name a few. If you're deploying your application using the Now CLI, you can deploy your secret information right through the CLI and give your code access to those secrets without exposing them directly in your source code. In this lesson, we'll cover how to add secrets to now, how to use a secret as the value of an environment variable and how to list and remove secrets in now.

Use Secrets When Deploying Applications with Now

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

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Now is a great way to deploy your node application, but the generated URLs aren't memorable or easily remembered. With Now's alias command, you can fix that. In this video lesson we'll cover how to add an alias to a deployment, giving you a custom `*.now.sh` subdomain, how to create an alias using your own custom domain name, how to list your aliases and finally how to remove an alias if you no longer want it.

Use Now alias for custom sub-domains

React is one of the web’s most popular frameworks for building JavaScript applications. 

If you know what you’re doing, React can drastically simplify how you build, use, and maintain code.

Whether you’re a React newbie or you’re ready for advanced techniques, you can level-up with egghead. Explore our in-depth courses, lessons, and community resources to build more powerful applications and crack open your career.

react

In this lesson, we’ll make a few small changes to our scripts and add some environment variables that will be used at build time to get our application ready to be deployed to a production environment using the `now` service. Once properly configured, we’ll use the `now` CLI and publish our application to a production server.

Configure a React & Redux Application For Production Deployment and Deploy to Now

Angular is a development platform for creating applications using modern web standards. Angular includes a wealth of essential features such as mobile gestures, animations, filtering, routing, data binding, security, internationalization, and beautiful UI components. It's extremely modular, lightweight, and easy to learn.

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In this lesson we will add support for deploying our application to [now.sh](https://zeit.co/now).

We will create a `now` object in package.json where we configure the name, the alias and the list of files we want to deploy.

We create an npm run-script called `now-build` and set the value to `true` to skip building the project on `now.sh`. The second run-script called `now` invokes `now deploy && now alias`. 

After this we sun `npm run build && npm run now` to build and deploy our app!

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