By chaz
as a beginner, I would like to learn how to deploy and set up/config my current GH project to automatically deploy to my DO account? Other any rules of thumb or talks that I could consult for proper methodology?
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I mean to push a GH node.js project from the GHsite to DO.
For instance, this prototype: https://github.com/ccsouthard/cure-map
To deploy your site when you push to GitHub, you’d generally need to use a GitHub webhook to make a POST to the url you provide when GitHub recieves a push. Then on your server, you’d have a script listening for that POST. When it receives it, the script would do a git pull and restart the application.
There are a number of approaches that you can take to deal with the server side. This blog post has one implementation using gith, a simple node server that responds to github post-receive events.
A more straightforward approach might just be to create a new git remote pointing to your server. That way you can push changes to GitHub that aren’t necessarily ready for production and then push to the new remote when you want to deploy. You can use a post receive hook to do any other server side steps. Check out:
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