My open source project FTP Seer is on Google Search now. Yay!!! 🦄
Background of FTP Seer 💎
Back in the days, when I was working on an in-house project where the client requirements are to gather application logs from remote server using FTP protocol and show it on their admin portal, I needed a backend API to fetch directory list and get file contents.
I found the JSFTP library which is pretty useful for my case and decided to put that in my tech stack. After that, I use Node and ExpressJS to serve http server to create a RESTful API which has now become the FTP Seer API
Continue to develop 😎
The API serve its purpose and the in-house project was done. However, I felt the need to make it open-source and create a full-stack application so that other developers can utilise it as well. So, starting from three or four months back, I picked up the old API in my archived repository and polished it by refactoring. I even wrote a landing page so that people can test the API just by the first visit.
Giving it a demo client application 💄
In order to properly use it, I also created a frontend application with a framework that I was obsessed with back then which is Svelte and Sapper framework to serve it universally (Client, Server-Side, Service-Worker).
The demo frontend application becomes FTP Seer Client.
Deploying the apps ⚙️
For deployment, since I didn't intend to purchase a domain for it, I used Heroku to deploy on their domain. I set up a CircleCI CI/CD pipeline so that whenever I push my latest commit it will deploy to heroku. The pipeline is available below
FTP Seer API - https://circleci.com/gh/m3yevn/ftp-seer
FTP Seer Client - https://circleci.com/gh/m3yevn/ftp-seer-client
and the configuration is at
https://github.com/m3yevn/ftp-seer/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml
https://github.com/m3yevn/ftp-seer-client/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml
Making them available on Google 🌎
However, Heroku domains are bad in SEO search results, therefore I used meta tags to provide suitable keywords, images, authors to make Google to crawl properly. I used Google Search Console and get verification meta tags , add them on the respective index.html and we're good to go.
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