Ask DN: How do you deploy and host websites today?

over 7 years ago from Jason Gowans, Co-Founder of Aerobatic

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…
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- 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 -diff
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- Alex 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.
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  - 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.
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    - Russell Heimlich, over 7 years ago
      What you're after is git hooks, specifically the post-recieve hook. look in your .git directory and there is a folder called hooks. 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-receive git 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
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