Maintaining and building on your Replit apps
1. Maintaining and building on your Replit apps
Okay, so we've made quite a bit of progress and built in many features. Now we're gonna take a step back and talk about what it means to maintain and build on your applications, because the best projects take place over months, not just days. And so extending a project is actually really similar to what we've already done, it just happens in a bigger loop. And so we talked about the four P approach, plan, prompt, polish, publish, and that's the loop that we've been using throughout this entire course. This loop can be applied in a larger building phase. So for a given feature, we'd plan it out, we'd prompt, we'd polish that feature, and then we'd ship it to our already deployed app. And then for feature two, we'd be doing the same thing. And same thing for feature three. And this is actually what we've been doing throughout the whole course. We started with our MVP and then we added in specific functionality to our application. And within that feature, we planned, prompted it, polished it up, and then shipped it, and that's what it takes to iterate and build on a project. And so now we're gonna take a step back into our application and talk about one of the final steps to any application, and that's how to add a custom domain. So now we're gonna talk about custom domains on Replit. So we've already deployed our app and you can see it's live at the URL matts-form.replit.app. You might want a more professional URL or more of a polished project, so we can go over to the domains tab and we'll have the ability to connect a domain that you might already own or buy a new domain. We'll type in ‘matts-form’, and it looks like matts-form.com is available. So I'm gonna go through, click this domain here, and now I get presented with a domain purchase. Selecting confirm purchase is going to purchase that domain, tie it into my red account, and then configure it for this project. This is really cool. I haven't seen this really anywhere else. I think it's the simplest and fastest way to add a custom domain to your project. So you'll have to wait between like 10 and 20 minutes. But what you'll see is that we return the status here live for you to follow along with. So don't worry too much if things don't work immediately, usually domains just take a little while to register, but, we'll come back once this is all set up and walk through it. So actually it didn't wait that long at all, but now you can see my domain is verified. Clicking through this link, we should get our form and we do. So matts-form.com has this domain live, you can enter your information and end-to-end we built out a project, connected a custom domain, and have a full stack web application that's completely customized and unique to us. And so that's been how you can deploy your app and connect a custom domain on rep. So in this course we've mainly talked about building solo, but it's likely that you'll want to build with others or maybe even use Replit at your job. And so for advanced and collaborative functionality and enterprise support, you should check out Replit Teams and Enterprise. There you'll get features like private teams deployment, SSO and SCIM, centralized account management and billing, and other enterprise grade admin controls. So if you're working on your team, if you're working at work, you should give Replit Teams and Enterprise a shot. Otherwise, if you're solo building or building on the side for your weekend project, Replit Core should be all you need.2. Let's practice!
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