Production Ready

What you need, as a Web Developer to be production ready.

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A walkthrough for starting Web Developers. As a freelance developer you can't jump through the process of earning money then having clients. You have to go through this right of passage. You have to make your projects be Production Ready. Hopefully by the end of this blog, your projects will be able to achieve that.

First things first:

  1. Have to make sure your project is already mobile friendly.
  2. Make sure it is SEO friendly (depends if what type of application you're building). SEO is really good for blogs or e-commerce basically any application that handles content and in needs of marketing.
  3. Setup environment variables (optional - if you have API keys or secret keys) .
  4. Use lighthouse or at least any tool that'll help you test your site's performance, SEO, Accessibility & Best Practices. This will help you a lot.
  5. Test for bugs in your source code.
  6. Remove unused code (if necessary).
  7. Then finally test your site in deployment.

After doing all these steps you can now be a Freelance Web Developer. Practice always makes perfect, keep on exploring other frameworks, best practices, writing a clean code and never be afraid of new stuff.

Hope this blog || article will help you!