From the course: Master Next.js: Elaborate Hands-On Web Development, React Basics, Advanced Next.js, and Deployment
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Deploy your first website with old-school HTML and JS for complete beginners
From the course: Master Next.js: Elaborate Hands-On Web Development, React Basics, Advanced Next.js, and Deployment
Deploy your first website with old-school HTML and JS for complete beginners
OK, so let's open up our code editor as a choice. I got VS Code here. Let's make a new file. We're going to enter the file name. We want to make an HTML file because we're going to build. We're going to start off by building in this section a basic website, get it working, old school traditional with an index page. Then we're going to add React to it ourselves. Then we're going to migrate that into Next.js. And the point of doing this ourselves is that you're going to see, through this process by Scratch, exactly how things work, how web applications work, leveraging these tools, and why they're so valuable. And having that foundation by Scratch is so much more valuable than just jumping into an NPM install or cloning a project, because it shows you why, exactly, and how. OK, so let's name this project index.html file. Let's save it. You can save it wherever you want. For now, I'll just save it on the desktop, and we can move this later. And there we go. Now you should have an…
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