Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment (CD) is the process of automatically deploying code changes to a production environment after the code has been built and tested. Let's set up CD for Notely!

We'll be using GitHub Actions again, but we'll create a new workflow for CD: cd.yml

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Assignment

Create a new workflow .github/workflows/cd.yml
It should trigger on push into the main branch.

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

It should have a single job called Deploy
It should checkout the code
It should set up a Node environment
It should install all dependencies
It should build the app using npm run build

To be clear, the ci workflow runs when a pull request is opened, but the cd workflow runs when a pull request is merged (or when code is pushed directly to the main branch).

Run the cd workflow and ensure it works by merging your PR into main (or pushing directly to main).

Paste the URL of your GitHub repo into the box and run the GitHub checks.