Phase 9: Capstone — Ship a Real Project · 25 min · Vercel · Netlify · Supabase

Deploying and Sharing

Your project on the internet. This is the moment everything you've learned becomes real.

Hiring signal: What changes when you use this: you've deployed a real project to the internet — which means you can do this for any idea.

What you will learn

Deploy the project to Vercel or Netlify
Set all environment variables on the platform
Test the full flow on the live URL
Share the project with real users
Collect and prioritize feedback

Your Mission

Deploy your capstone project, test the full flow on the live URL, and share with real users. Output: deployment_sharing_notes.md.

You need: A project that passed the full checklist (Lesson 03).

Time: 45 minutes.

Step 1: Deploy to Vercel or Netlify (10 min)

The moment of truth
Deploying is the moment of truth. Everything you've built — the planning, the review habits, the checklists, the security audit — comes together here. If you did the work, the deployment is smooth. If you skipped steps, the deployment reveals it: blank pages (missing env vars), data leaks (missing RLS), crashes (swallowed errors). The deployment doesn't create problems — it reveals them.

Push your code to GitHub (if not already):

git add .
git commit -m "Ready to deploy"
git push origin main

Go to Vercel.com or Netlify.com
Import your GitHub repo
Configure build settings (auto-detected for most frameworks)
Add ALL environment variables — this is the #1 deployment failure
Click Deploy
Wait 1-2 minutes for the build to complete
Visit the live URL

Write in your file:

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You've read the first 2 sections. The rest of this lesson covers Deployment, Step 2: Set Environment Variables (5 min), Environment Variables, Step 3: Test the Full Flow on the Live URL (10 min), Live URL Testing, Step 4: Share Your Project (10 min), Sharing, Step 5: Collect and Prioritize Feedback (10 min), Feedback, You're Done — plus a hands-on lab, quiz, and project artifact.

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