Hellooooo I am back with another post, this time talking about more projects that I have completed filling my knowledge gaps and also making me more excited to start others.

Like I wrote in my previous post, I was trying to deploy my last project on Heroku Exercise-Tracker but I was stacked because I was trying to understand how to upload and environmental variable and I find out that was extremely easy and so if you go now in my portfolio/projects page you will find the project there.

Now deploying the backed on this projects was a bit of a pain because I was not understanding why even though the build was successful on Heroku there was an error, so I had to look on google for a solution, the error was Cannot get/ and the reason why was because I had not default route in my server so it was looking for a page to show live and obviously there was not page because there was not route, but after find out that I create the route and Heroku gave me another error Not Found, so again I looked on google and the answer was the same, the server was not able to found my index.html to load live, The solution That I found was to use the Path Module and with __dirname create the path for the server to find the Index.html, ok good , done that Heroku presented me with a different error Internal Server Error, at that point I was screaming because I spent 2 days trying to solve the issues and I had just errors coming up.

Anyway end of the story after 4 days of debugging I asked myself why I was trying to show live the app on Heroku if the front end was already deployed on Netlify and that's when I realised that I was an "idiot" so the only solution at that problem was just creating a default route with "/" and use res.send and not res.sendFile, done that the server was up and running with no errors, but the good thing in all this was that I deep dig on google for a solution and I learnt how to read the logs understand the errors and look for a specific solution.

Now the app is running with no issues, after solved it I felt great, after 4/5 days of searching I was finally able to make it work.

After the Exercise-Tracker I moved on the next Project by Traversy Media The Expense-Tracker, another project with the MERN Stack quite similar to another project that I have on my portfolio The Budget Calculator but different because is more structured, use a database with a node server and context Api to manage the internal state of the app, so like I said Similar but not.

The big take away from these 2 projects experience is the learning how to create a server, create routes, managing a database , connecting the database to the server and the server to the client side, structure the projects in a way that it's easy to understand and also very organised.

After these 2 I will move on the next one, that I am not sure yet which one to go with first, but before that I want to dig a bit more on the MongoDB Node and RestFull api, more like a theory learning.

Good I think that all these projects that I am doing and I have done in the past are making me more confident and ready to look finally for a job, applying for a junior developer should not be too hard cause I guess at the moment I am learning more advanced stuff so in theory I could possibly find something but who know we shall see.

That's it for now, My journey continue, I'll talk to you in the next post.

Stay safe.