Automate Doulevo release

doulevo / doulevo

A platform that simplifies application development and deployment.

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Automate Doulevo release #20

Closed nickdotht closed 3 years ago

nickdotht commented 3 years ago

We need to simplify NPM package publishing and GitHub releases so we can focus on development rather than deployment.

Here are my suggestions:

Uses GitHub Actions
Runs on
- A push to the main branch
- A manual run from the GitHub interface
It should only build and deploy when it detects version changes from the package.json file
After building, it should publish to NPM and create a new GitHub release using the build artifacts

It will require we set the NPM_TOKEN and the GITHUB_TOKEN secrets from the GitHub interface.

Note: this is different from continuous integration, for which we should create a new GitHub action - #4

Once we agree on all of those or even more, I'll get started on it.

ashleydavis commented 3 years ago

Sounds good... but we should only publish from the prod branch (which doesn't exist yet).

We also have to build and release the executable for all platforms.

ashleydavis commented 3 years ago

Also I'm thinking it might be good to do "latest" releases and versioned releases.

So any merge and push to prod should build "latest".

But to build a versioned release we'd have to tag the relevant commit with a label.

I've done similar for my Authentic project: https://github.com/ashleydavis/authentic/blob/main/.github/workflows/main.yml

@R4meau if you want to work on this please show me a prototype first in a separate project, then we can talk about how to integrate it.

nickdotht commented 3 years ago

Sounds great!

Didn't know about Authentic. Interesting project.

Alright, I'll create a prototype first.

ashleydavis commented 3 years ago

Yeah I think separate prototypes are good way to work. That way we can experiment and learn before we try to integrate into Doulevo.

Also Doulevo already comes with some baggage, when you build a prototype you are allowed to discard the baggage and be free to try any idea without risk. Don't try and make it perfect though. It just has to answer the question "how will this work" and then it's ready to show.

If you want to share a prototype you can give to me by zip file or by Git repo. Really good prototypes that can help other people, we might add them to the Doulevo repo as examples, for example these early ones that I did: https://github.com/doulevo/handlebars-template-prototype https://github.com/doulevo/build-system-test

nickdotht commented 3 years ago

I get the idea. Thanks!

nickdotht commented 3 years ago

I created the prototype over there - https://github.com/R4meau/say-hi-npm

The PR is #25