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Hi. My name is Alex and I've been developing software since the turn of the century. My goal with this blog is to share the steps that go into building a production quality full stack application. I am going to start with a simple proof of concept and iterate on it. The application we will be building together is intended to tell users information about local landmarks while they are walking or driving around. I have decided to call it autotoor as that was the most descriptive available domain I could find. Some things I hope to go through in future posts: Defining the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) Creating an initial app that we can run locally Using Expo to test a mobile app on a phone Deploying the backend to a cloud provider Building a test build of the mobile app to run on a phone Defining the infrastructure as code Automating the build pipeline Publishing the mobile app to app stores Some technologies I plan to use along the way: Node.js NestJS R...