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DAY_03

Deployment, Domains & Production Readiness

Taking the application from localhost to a real production URL — and proving it holds up.

Day 03 covers everything between “it works on my machine” and “it works in production”: deploying, pointing a real domain at it, making it discoverable, and measuring it.

What you will learn

STAGE 08

Deploy with Vercel

Deploy your application so it is publicly accessible. The final application must be reachable during judging.

>VS Code → GitHub → Vercel → Live Website
STAGE 09

Configure the Domain with Cloudflare

Connect your deployed application to a domain or subdomain, and see how a name becomes an address.

Domains
DNS
DNS records
Subdomains
Routing a domain to a hosted application
DISCOVERY

Google and Bing Indexing

Once the site is deployed, learn how search engines discover and index a website using Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Site verification
Sitemaps
robots.txt
URL inspection
Page titles
Meta descriptions
Basic technical SEO
You are not judged on whether the site actually appears in search results — indexing time is controlled by the search engines. You are judged on whether it was properly prepared and submitted.
MEASURE

Google PageSpeed Insights

Evaluate the deployed application, investigate what the report flags, improve what is worth improving, and test again.

Performance
Accessibility
SEO
Best practices
Mobile experience
Core Web Vitals
>Measure → Investigate → Improve → Measure Again
The objective is not a perfect score. The objective is the loop.

Handouts

The full written material for this workshop, to read along or take away.

Tools used on this day

// KEY PRINCIPLE

A project isn’t finished when it runs. It’s finished when it ships.