Switch to Netlify - Githubissues

msiebuhr / charcod.es

Small webpage for finding the odd unicode char code.

https://charcodes.netlify.app/

ISC License

18 stars 3 forks source link

Switch to Netlify #59

Closed msiebuhr closed 3 years ago

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

Netlify is a freemium static site hosting service, that can take care of building, serving (including HTTPS) for us.

Reasons to switch:

Get HTTPS. GratisDNS + Github Pages doesn't do that, and we'll need it to get some of the new web features to work
The current build-pipeline is quite fragile and I keep forgetting how it works.

Reasons for Netlify:

Cloudflare + gh-pages would solve the HTTP-problem, but leave the build-pipeline. Also, CF requires that their DNS servers take care of charcod.es, which GratisDNS doesn't allow us to do without paying some rather hefty fees.
Netlify runs a build-pipeline that magically does the right thing for us

TODO

[x] Switch to Netlify
[x] Get HTTPS working
[x] Clean up old build-pipeline
[x] Do a release-branch for Netlify to track.

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

Related to #58

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

Found out we were publishing http-pub and not http-pub-production...

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

Also added @Munter and @omichelsen as site administrators on Netlify.

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

From the console messages, it looks like Google Analytics is broken when used over HTTPS.

Perhaps we should just switch to something else, if we're tinkering with it any way. Opinions, @papandreou / @Munter ?

papandreou commented 6 years ago

From the console messages, it looks like Google Analytics is broken when used over HTTPS

Fixed in 7f4e8080e100f70c61b58ab47df82c44bdfbcb5e

papandreou commented 6 years ago

Switch to something other than netlify? Why would we do that? Is there something better?

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

I was thinking about switching to something else than Google Analytics...

papandreou commented 6 years ago

Oh... :)

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

Also, releases are now done from the release branch. Fast-forward merge into master and push...

papandreou commented 6 years ago

Thanks. I managed to deploy 7f4e8080e100f70c61b58ab47df82c44bdfbcb5e via the netlify web interface, but will use release from now on. Fast-forward merged it just now.

msiebuhr commented 6 years ago

No worries. If we rather want a Netlify-based workflow, I'm OK with that.

papandreou commented 6 years ago

Pushing a branch is nicer, I just didn't know any better :)