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Ask DN: How do you deploy and host websites today?
over 7 years ago from Jason Gowans, Co-Founder of Aerobatic
Jordan Koschei, over 7 years ago
I do all my processing locally, using Gulp or Grunt. Haven't even tried deploy-time processing.
Matt Anderson, over 7 years ago Ahh damn, that's currently what I do too though I'm getting sick of conflicting css files from the build process…
Titouan Mathis, over 7 years ago
You can add a .gitattributes file, to mark your CSS files as binary and avoid conflicts, with this line:
*.css -text -diffAlex Chan, over 7 years ago
You can add a hook to your server side deployment to run whatever command you want (e.g.
gulp build:dist) when something is pushed.Matt Anderson, over 7 years ago That sounds exactly what I'm after, thanks!
p.s. You know any good resources for getting this set up correctly? e.g. error handling etc.
Russell Heimlich, over 7 years ago What you're after is git hooks, specifically the
post-recievehook. look in your.gitdirectory and there is a folder calledhooks. Inside there are files that are basically shell scripts.I would write a shell script to trigger your gulp command, test it, make sure it works, and then hook it up to your
post-receivegit hook like so...!/bin/bash
path/to/your/shell-script.sh
Now whenever your repo on your server recieves changes, that shell script will run and do whatever needs to be done.
Here is a more thorough guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-git-hooks-to-automate-development-and-deployment-tasks
Similar to the setup I use!
You had any luck compiling SCSS on the server (on deploy) by any chance?