So it took all day, but I finally have a single command to
open Vim, commit the new file to the local repo and push the
change to the remote repo. This will trigger a post-receive
hook on the server which runs the build.sh script in each
project directory where files changed!
CMS over git! :D
This is cool. I want to expand this to my other deployed projects like my personal site which is a React app, and a couple of other React apps that I’ve been hacking on recently.
The API is so simple so I don’t anticipate any major struggles. There’s still a little bit of extra work when it comes to adding new projects though because I’m currently not building project artifacts directly in a directory that is being served by nginx - there’s one level of symlink indirection that isn’t automatic (mostly to be cautious and to avoid exposing something unintentionally).
I definitely want to get to a point where a single git push can deploy an entirely new app though, this would be awesome :)