This is going to be a very short one, because I very much anticipated to be the deployment of this blog way more complicated than it turned out to be.
Tech stack
I decided to write this blog in Astro because I want to learn more about it - using it, the island structure and the great implementation of the ViewTransition API.
And since Vercel is a partner of Astro since the release of v3.0, I thought to myself: why not deploy it on Vercel?
Prior experience with deployments
Outside of work, my experience with deploying websites was limited to Netlify and fly.io. Netlify was used for simple React apps, there were mostly no problems, fly was a different stoy: Dockerfile, database, the whole 9 yards.
I was expecting some friction when deploying this blog, but actually: it was as simple as just importing a git repository and clicking deploy.
It would have been harder if this blog would use for example SSR, but there is also a great Astro adapter for this.
If I have to deploy something fast, I’m pretty sure I will use Vercel again.