Building A Game Portal With Next.js And Overcoming Deployment Hurdles
Built an online game portal for JSMastery hackathon using Next.js & freetogame API. Deployed on Vercel, encountered bugs but solved them with AI assistance. Key takeaways: use AI in ideating & debugging, install GitHub Copilot, and don't give up!
When you have nothing to lose, then you should probably try I participated in the JSMastery hackathon organized by JSMastery for reaching 1 million subscribers on YouTube. I spent one week trying to come up with an idea, I then started developing the idea 5 days to submission deadline😰. I used AI to give me a head start then developed from there. TBH, AI helped me meet the deadline by not allowing me waste time weeding in the dark. The hackathon's theme was Build and Deploy. So you could build anything, so long as you deploy it. So I built an online game portal where you can find and play ga...