I’ve already had an Amazon AWS account that got suspended - probably do to inactivity, but I’m guessing as I only used it for a few months and haven’t touched it in over a year. But it’s linked to my only credit card so now I can’t make a new account because that also ends up being suspended.
You don’t need cloud9. Develop locally and deploy to Heroku or glitch. You can host the db remotely with mlab. Do a search in this forum and you should find specific instructions on how to do all of the above. If still stuck ask questions here.
The official FCC recommendation is changing from Cloud9 to Glitch. There are a number of other options available. If you search for variations of “cloud9” and “c9.io” in the forum, you will find some very helpful discussions about different tools used by campers.
OK, the progress map and at least the first lesson, Node.js, has not been updated for this yet then. I’ve got a Linux box so I figured and I can run those lessons on there, though I’m not sure what I’ll be able to submit when marking each of those projects as done.
I’ll take a look through the forums. glitch and Heroku look useful for actually making things, but don’t appear to give me access to a virtual machine like the challenges expect.
As long as the project is live and the code is viewable online, you can use whatever development environment you like. Here are the new instructions that mention Glitch instead of Cloud9.
Any update on this? The Map still has not updated, and I really don’t want to start the old certification process if the new one is going to go live soon as that seems a waste of time to me.
You can follow the instructions that are currently on the beta site. The projects aren’t going to change. There is still just debugging that needs to happen before the curriculum goes to production.
There is a Medium publication, a Twitter, and you can follow the progress on FCC’s GitHub and Waffle board. In the past, it has been very obvious when the curriculum changes over even without all the announcements. Every time there has been a significant update on the progress of Beta, there has been an announcement on the forums.
I am in the middle of the back end development certification. I have just completed the “Finish working with Node.js server” challenge and moving forward. Should I continue on AWS cloud9 or switch to glitch?