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From: Ayushya Amitabh <ayushyamitabh@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:34:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md

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+# Rajanibala Portifolio
+
+### How To Deploy:  
+
+1. **Make sure you have Node.js, npm, and firebase tools installed**  
+    a. Can be downloaded from [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
+    b. Accept & Install
+    c. Confirm it worked - open Command Prompt and type:
+    ```cmd
+    node -v   // this command should output a version number, then run next line
+    npm -v    // this command should then also output a version number
+    ```
+    d. Install firebase tools by running:
+    ```cmd
+    npm install -g firebase-tools   // should have some success code at the end
+    ```
+    
+    
+2. **Now that we have the tools installed, lets login to Firebase in terminal.**  
+    a. Check you have access [by going here](https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/albarajanibala-a9cb6/overview)  
+    b. In Command Prompt type:
+    ```cmd
+    firebase login  // should open up in Chrome, make sure you login with the right Google account
+    ```
+    c. Download the existing code from GitHub if you haven't already _(see button in top right)_  
+    
+    
+3. **Time to prepare new code and publish.** 
+
+    > Before publishing - make sure you have an `index.html` file in the `www` folder
+
+    a. Place your new files or edit the files in the folder called `www`
+    b. Now navigate to the downloaded code from Command Prompt:
+    ```cmd
+    // If you downloaded files are at \Downloads\rajanibala
+    cd ~\Downloads\rajanibala
+    ```
+    c. Finally time to publish:
+    ```cmd
+    firebase deploy --only hosting
+    ```
+    > Accidentally pushed?
+    Firebase lets you rollback changes and delete previous versions - this can be done from [Firebase Hosting Dashboard](https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/albarajanibala-a9cb6/hosting/main)
+
+4. **Updating code to GitHub**  
+    > This is important so your changes are safely stored for the future. This also helps to easily revert any unwanted changes.  
+    
+    a. To push your changes to GitHub, first make sure you have `git` installed - you can [get git from here](https://desktop.github.com/)    
+    b. Find your project in GitHub app - go to File > Add Local Repository > (Navigate to inside rajanibala folder)  
+    c. Select your files that you want to push to GitHub  
+    d. Add a description of changes  
+    e. Click "Commit to master"  
+    f. Button in top bar should now say "Push origin" - click that and you're done!  
+    
+
+### Testing Locally:
+
+To simulate how the website would work on the internet, you can simulate a server locally on your machine.
+
+1. Open Command Prompt and type
+    ```cmd
+    npm install -g http-server
+    ```
+2. Navigate to inside `www` folder in Command Prompt
+    ```cmd
+    // If you downloaded files are at \Downloads\rajanibala
+    cd ~\Downloads\rajanibala\www
+    ```
+3. Start server
+    ```cmd
+    http-server .   \\ Output will have a number after ':' this is called a port number
+    ```  
+4. Go to Chrome and open [localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080)
+    > 8080 might not be correct, use the port number that was output in step 3  
+