Murat Çorlu

Today I Learned

#TIL - Docker based static site hosting solutions

As a frontend developer, I deployed hundreds of static website projects until now on tens of different providers including GitHub/GitLab pages, Netlify, Surge.sh, Firebase, AWS S3 (+ Cloudfront) and also my very own domain to path redirected Nginx server. They are all good services but either expensive or limited

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#TIL - Op3.dev

OP3: The Open Podcast Prefix Project A project that can intervene your podcast media files and generates public download stats by completely free. Apparently it works with the support of some sponsors and they also share their Cloudflare invoices (It's around $700/m currently). I would expect that

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#TIL - ZeroSSL

Free SSL Certificates and SSL Tools - ZeroSSLFree SSL certificates issued instantly online, supporting ACME clients, SSL monitoring, quick validation and automated SSL renewal via ZeroSSL Bot or REST API.ZeroSSL LogoZeroSSL I use LetsEncrypt for all of my projects since a while. But this week I learned that, LetsEncrypt

docker

Health check for Ghost Docker deployment

I'm playing with Ghost for a while to host many websites as easy as possible. I'm a fan of Docker Swarm to manage a production environment that I can host many projects in an easy way. (For more details how to do that, you can check

css

CSS Day 2023 Notes

I joined CSS Day 2023 conference in Amsterdam. Here are some of my remarks about it

css

CSS isolation with Declarative Shadow DOM

The browser support for DSD is becoming increasingly widespread, and I believe that there are more use cases for it beyond just SSR.

testing

Mocha.js equivalent of it.each

Mochajs doesn't have `it.each` but it's still possible to easily write repeating tests

Front-end may soon need new sub-disciplines

Backend effort on most projects is declining every day with the help of high abstraction by cloud services. We can already make complete client-side applications with dynamic and collaborated data by just using some public services (like Firebase or CloudKit). We can manage authentication without having any server to maintain.

History of Web Icons

This is an article about our suffer for implementing decorative icons in our web UIs

A productivity tip: Automate first!

In recent years I have developed a lot of projects on various scales. Some of these have been developed and deployed very quickly. But maintaining these projects were not as fun as developing them. While I’m trying to fix issues or adding new features to my projects, I notice

testing

Mocking REST endpoints in web apps, the easy way

tldr; Use client-side mocks for your REST API endpoints with connect-api-mocker