Server Side Up
Quality tutorials & resources for devs and sysadmins. No BS.
We had such incredible feedback from @danpastori's course on Laravel + Vue.js development, we decided to revisit the entire series and add a ton more to it.
We've been only a two person development company since 2011. Our constraints force us to be creative, so Dan and I came up with a very strategic way on how we can build so much with such little manpower.
👉 We'll be sharing our experiences in our upcoming book.
What the book covers
✅ Learn how to write your own JSON API using Laravel PHP
✅ Secure your API using Laravel Sanctum, Socialite, and Passport
✅ Prevent unauthorized access by implementing a proper permission structure
✅ Create a single-page application using NuxtJS (a Vue.js framework )
✅ Using the same code base, create an iOS and Android app using Capacitor
You'll be able to create two mobile apps from the same front-end code using a single command. Update once, deploy to all of the things! 😱
What you'll learn to build
Dan and I have been hard at work making the learning experience as best as possible. This is not how to build another To-Do List app. You will actually be learning how we built ROAST, a coffee discovery app.
✨ Learn from an app has real-world problems with real-world solutions. ✨
We created 3 apps that all talk back to a centralized API:
You will learn how we built each step and how you can adopt these principles to your own application.
It's more than just a book
We'll be making a package available that includes:
✅ API & SPA Guide Book in digital book format (PDF, MOBI, EPUB)
✅ Immediate production source code repository access to ROAST
✅ Immediate private forum access where you can ask question on our community
Current status of the book
We're targeting on having this book available in August. 1,000+ people are on our email list waiting for the book. We'll hold a launch sale on the day we launch.
👉 Sign up on our mailing list to follow our progress and clinch the launch sale.
As always, we'll keep you posted on how this product turns out for us and what lessons we learn. Always be building, never stop learning. ✌️
Asking for help on building a product can be very intimidating, especially when you ask a technical question.
Reddit is a popular place to ask questions, but it is filled with too many sarcastic trolls. To make things more frustrating, Reddit's algorithm can sometimes prevent your question from even appearing.
We decided to create our own community of software developers & sysadmins so we can take the responsibility of maintaining a quality/friendly online community.
We're here to help with anything related to software and product development:
- Laravel
- HTML/CSS
- Vue.js
- NuxtJS
- WordPress
- Docker
- JavaScript
- Business
- UI/UX
- and much more!
After years of working on our consulting agency, @danpastori and I finally reached an epiphany: People have been paying us for our knowledge since 2011, but it's only on a "one-to-one" basis.
What we mean by "one-to-one" is that a customer hires us, we solve their problem, and we move on.
There are many downfalls of this:
- We are literally trading hours for dollars
- When we solve a complex problem, the only person we help is the customer
- Helping a small group of people is generally not as meaningful
@danpastori have a much bigger vision than just helping a few customers. We're self-taught developers that bootstrapped our own consulting business. It's time for us to help others get access to quality technical resources so they can become self-educated too.
We want to covert our problem solving to "one-to-many". We can work on solving one problem really well, that solves it for many people. We believe we can have a lot more fun doing this as we grow a community and meet other developers.
It was time to get real. @danpastori and I took a step back, read through Don Miller's "Building a Storybrand" book and we started from the top.
Developers learn best when they have quality resources and a community to learn from. We're building our entire brand around this need.
We launched a new logo and website to state our position. Server Side Up is no longer a side project for us! It's the ship that will hopefully get us to our dreams of starting a school someday!
After volunteering for a local computer networking project, I took a ton of notes and put together a free course on YouTube.
The course covered the entire network design, installation, & configuration of Ubiquiti UniFi devices and a Synology server.
With only 9 videos, this landed us over 2,000 subscribers on our YouTube channel: https://serversideup.net/courses/complete-ubiquiti-unifi-synology-network-build/
After many years of being distracted with client work, we decided to re-theme Server Side Up. This ultimately led to @danpastori writing his "Laravel API + Vue.js SPA series".
Many people started signing up on our mailing list and many questions started being asked on how we develop software.
It was 2010 and my friends and I were sitting in our university cafeteria. After we sat there and ranted on how unhappy we were with our IT classes, we decided that we were going to create a blog that shared quality technical resources.
We took the first plunge and registered our domain name. We then ran to ThemeForest (which was a great idea at the time 🙃) and purchased a theme for our shiny new WordPress site.
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