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Upgrading From heroku-18 to heroku-22 and Subscribing to Eco Dynos Plan

Posted by Ninja Space Content on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, In : heroku 
When I was in a coding bootcamp, we were using Heroku with heroku-18 on a free version to deploy projects. However, Heroku is drastically changing things. Last November, Heroku eliminated the free version and heroku-18 is now deprecated and will reach end-of-life on April 30, 2023! 

All of my databases and API end points were down for a month because I was hosting all of them on Heroku via their now deprecated free version. After a couple of hours looking at documentation on upgrading, I got o...
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Cloudinary Implementation with Multer

Posted by Ninja Space Content on Friday, March 5, 2021, In : node 
Since Heroku does not keep my uploaded files from the deployed link after a day, I had to find a solution to this. Because their file system is ephemeral, which I learned the hard way, I had to find a cloud service that would store my uploaded photos. Read more from Heroku on what it means to be ephemeral and their suggestions on how to store uploaded files.

After googling online for suggestions, I went with a free plan with Cloudinary. Their Node.js SDK documentation is very thorough.  You ca...
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Deploying React App on AWS Beanstalk

Posted by Ninja Space Content on Sunday, January 24, 2021, In : AWS 
Here are the steps that I took to deploy my React App today: 
  1. First sign up for a free AWS account
  2. Create a new app in AWS Beanstalk
  3. Use git to bundle my source according to instructions here: $ git archive -v -o myapp.zip --format=zip HEAD
  4. One thing that I noticed that AWS Beanstalk looks for to run the files in there server.js (back-end) and client folder (front-end). So I'll need to make some changes. Example: my server file should be named server.js and not "index.js" like I have now. Also, t...

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Should I get an SSL Cert for my Website

Posted by Ninja Space Content on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, In : Domain Management 
This is pretty important to consider when you are starting a website or a blog. If you're an e-commerce website or collecting proprietary and personal information directly through your website like your visitor's driver's license number, credit card information, etc., then an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate is mandatory to protect your visitors and customers. However, if you're creating a very informative website and not asking for any information from your user for a credit card trans...
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Ninja Space Content I have been building simple websites on my own since 2008 and currently run several websites at the moment, including this one. I used to be an account manager for an affiliate/e-commerce company, helping affiliates grow their sales so I have some knowledge on the business side and client side of affiliate marketing. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I completed a JavaScript coding bootcamp and graduated in Dec 2020. I've been working as a contractor for a few software companies ever since.
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