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Hosting a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Hosting a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I thought I’d share some learnings about how to host a Next.js site with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This is a minimum configuration to get a basic site up and running.

Creating a links page with Bulma Clean Theme
Creating a links page with Bulma Clean Theme

I’ve seen a few posts recently asking what other authors use for their website. There are many options available, but sometimes you just want a single page with links to your social media profiles and links to your books. This is where Bulma Clean Theme and GitHub pages can come to the rescue.

HTML is beautiful
HTML is beautiful

Building a modern website can sometimes lead you to be so far separated from the end result that is sent to the user. Developers can end up focusing on building sites with component based frontend frameworks, fetching data from APIs and installing hundreds of npm dependencies. We can become more interested in writing great code in their chosen programming language than what we serve to the website visitors. How did we get so far away from writing HTML?

How NOT to make a website

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