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How To Scaffold and Deploy a Next.js App With Tailwind CSS and TypeScript
Get your apps production-ready

Seeing something you built running in production for the first time is an unbelievable feeling. The difference in effect between following along in a tutorial and coding some of the exercises locally compared to actually deploying literally anything cannot be overstated. As Benjamin Franklin (allegedly) said:
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Prelude
This article is going to be the first of many. In this series, we will continuously build out a small web app. I am not deadset on the final app itself, but it will most certainly include:
- Animations
- Authentication
- A Curriculum Vitae section
- Some digital products to buy
All the tools and technologies we are going to use don’t cost a dime. However, I assume that you have some familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript, GitHub, and React. Ideally, you’d also be using Visual Studio Code.
In today’s article, we are going to cover the following topics: