Forem: Maksim Surguy

Automatically Deploying Nuxt.js + Express app on Now

Maksim Surguy — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:16:20 +0000

I published a demo project that can help you understand deployment environments on Now.sh and how to automatically push to those environments using Github Actions.

Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/msurguy/nuxt-express-now

More about the repository:

The project has minimal structure to it, but it achieves the goals of demonstrating automatic deployments. It:

Uses latest stable version of Nuxt and Express (currently Nuxt 2.9.2)
Uses API endpoint from the ENV file (or from Now.json files)
Uses Github actions to deploy when a tag with a specific pattern is pushed
Uses ES6 in Node server code
Uses basic auth that is conditionally enabled / disabled via env variable
Automatically trims old deployments (that are not aliased) once a week

Assumptions

The default branch is staging. All PRs in the project are made against that branch
When testing is done on staging and approved, PR is opened against master
When this project is automatically deployed via Now + Github integration (not through Github Action), it uses now.json as the config.

Here's the diagram of what's happening when you push certain tags to the Github repository:

Hope you enjoy and share this project!

Resources to make Github Actions useful

Maksim Surguy — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 17:03:27 +0000

As the new Github Actions feature is rolling out worldwide, I wanted to take a minute and compile a short list of resources that will help you get started with Actions and take full advantage of extreme power that they bring.

Here are the resources that I recommend you check out when starting with Actions:

Check The Action Bible, aka "Workflow Syntax" to look through the syntax of Actions: https://help.github.com/en/articles/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions
Browse through the list of "Awesome Actions" to find some inspiration: https://github.com/sdras/awesome-actions
When you want to use existing actions or find examples of Actions, check the Actions Marketplace: https://github.com/marketplace?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=actions&query=
If you're migrating actions from old syntax to new syntax: https://help.github.com/en/articles/migrating-github-actions-from-hcl-syntax-to-yaml-syntax
To understand the events that trigger workflows: https://help.github.com/en/articles/events-that-trigger-workflows

Hope you find these resources useful, have fun, and stay active!

Clean local GIT branches

Maksim Surguy — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:57:35 +0000

To clean all of your local branches except the current HEAD, master and staging, you can use this script:

git branch | grep -v "master\|staging" | xargs git branch -D

You can add more branches to the list of the ones that you want to skip, for example if you wanted to keep dev branch in addition to the current branch, master and staging:

"master\|staging\|dev"

To further automate this, you can add an alias to your terminal by modifying your ~/.bash_profile file:

...
alias clean-branches="git branch | grep -v \"master\|staging\" | xargs git branch -D"
...

Now, when you're within the project directory, you can use clean-branches command to perform this trimming automatically.

Enjoy!