How to Host Your Modern Open-Source Web App for Free
It’s simple with AWS Lambda, Angular, MongoDB, and Github Pages.
We all like to build and try new things to get some experience with the latest technologies. As developers who closely work with the web, we often make web applications with our innovative ideas. Most of the time, we do these kinds of things just for fun. After all, we would like to publish our work as an open-source project. Thereafter, we could show your awesome work to other developers and users. If our web app is having old-fashioned monolithic architecture with several PHP source files, there are thousands of free shared hosting services to publish our work. But if we are following modern microservices architecture, usually there will be a bill at the end of the month.
I also make open-source web apps that use the microservices pattern just for fun during my free time. I found the following approach to host those non-commercial apps without spending a single penny.
LAMG
LAMG is like the LAMP stack that stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. LAMP offers a good development stack for monolithic web applications. Likewise, MEAN-like tech stacks are popular modern monolithic stacks. Further, those modern stacks can be used with the microservices pattern too since each…
