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Chess Web Programming: Part Three: Deploying your Application

Stupid question, you have no .gitignore file, so we shall upload the node_modules and the public folder, everything? I am asking because on my system, `create-react-app` creates a repo with a .gitignore, because git is already installed.
The commit is still working, adding all these files ...
Yes, if you have no .gitignore file, then all files will be committed and published to GitHub, not really what you want, you just want the files that you need to run a full build.

I think create-react-app creates the .gitignore file by default, with the node_modules excluded. You actually want the public folder as your assets are there and needed to run the build.
Hey where do you find the illustrations for your articles ? I find them very pretty so I was wondering whether or not it was AI generated or if you had a specific website where you find those
@HollowLeaf

Thanks. I just out commented the "/public" line in the .gitignore and that worked.

Here is my GitHub page with your app: github.com/nilslindemann/react-chess-app

Thanks for your tutorials! It was a pleasure going through them. I have learned more about web development than in the last 6 months in German IT school XD
good presentation technique with the first paragraph/section. Something teachers in academic settings that really care about teaching technical stuff or just anything, acknowledging the students or audience needs a long arc map to be able to piggy back on the speaker train of delivery, when their train of thought was 5 mins not in sync, or came from another high brain drain demanding.

The recap and the tying back. I just wanted to support that. I am not ready to deploy anything though.. :) But I know you have made a series and are sharing the behind the scene as much as you can. . Promising.
@T-Ramisu said in #5:
> Hey where do you find the illustrations for your articles ? I find them very pretty so I was wondering whether or not it was AI generated or if you had a specific website where you find those

I use DALL-E (a part of Open AI). I normally type the following prompts "Generate me an abstract image to show ABC, make this monotone with splash of colour, aspect ratio wide" then ask for changes. I finally take it into GIMP for final editing and tweaks.

Stylistically, I like abstract images.
@dboing said in #8:
> good presentation technique with the first paragraph/section. Something teachers in academic settings that really care about teaching technical stuff or just anything, acknowledging the students or audience needs a long arc map to be able to piggy back on the speaker train of delivery, when their train of thought was 5 mins not in sync, or came from another high brain drain demanding.
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> The recap and the tying back. I just wanted to support that. I am not ready to deploy anything though.. :) But I know you have made a series and are sharing the behind the scene as much as you can. . Promising.

Thanks for the support. One of my outside hobbies for a decades was teaching Salsa. I also teach as a part of my day job, so I always try to be as accessible as possible.

The goal of this series is to be for *anyone* with an slight interest to be able to follow along. It does takes me far more time as it is tougher to write articles where I assume zero IT knowledge, but I think it is worth it.