Background/Context
I’m running a WordPress site on a DO droplet whose static js and CSS are generated via gulp tasks. For those interested, I’ll leave the contents of my gulpfile below. My entire WordPress site is stored on Github and I’m using GitHub Webhooks to auto-deploy new commits that reach the repo to my DO server.
Problem
I use SASS to facilitate writing styles (for anyone unfamiliar, SASS compiles to pure CSS). This is done via the compile:sass task in my gulpfile. Today, I need to run gulp locally and commit the built CSS file (style.css) to my repo so that the changes end up on my server. This is a bad practice and one I’d like to change. In an ideal world, should my server be executing gulp every time it receives a message from GitHub’s webhook? Are there additional build processes that I should implement to make my setup more bulletproof?
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From what you describe, your only use for gulp is to compile the sass to css.
Therefore, if you drop to writing css, there won’t be any need to compile anything, which means gulp won’t be needed, right?
If that’s the case, then you’ll only need to copy over the changes to DO and that’ll be all, whenever you make changes.
You can run gulp commands via Github Actions if that is a must also, that way, you don’t need to run those commands on your machine everytime before you push to Github
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