How to Cheaply Host Your Full-Stack Side-Project: Serving it From Home

Published at May 25, 2023 ·  4 min read

Heya fellows, Frontend projects can be hosted for free. But when you’re creating a full-stack app your provider needs to process requests, making database calls etc. No hosting provider offers this for free. So when no one offers this for free what else can we do? Build it ourselves! Content Hardware Docker Dynamic DNS Port Forwarding My Home Server Setup 1. Hardware To start, you’ll need a computer that can act as a server....

Turning a Website into an API

Published at March 31, 2021 ·  10 min read

Heya fellows, The amount of interesting data which can be found on websites is increasing from day to day. These data are scraped by search engines to improve search results, they're collected to create machine learning models or just processed and other services/apps are recreated from them. The latter can be achieved by scraping data and then exposing them as RESTful API to other developers so they can build their services/apps around it....