Proposition: automate build and deploy with GitHub actions about learning_python HOT 2 OPEN

I really like this idea and agree that it would be worthwhile. I would like to add some CI, like a link-checker (#67), that would gate PRs as well.

I think that my only hang-ups are:

• I would not be able to view the HTML that actually got built before it goes live. That is, there could be a discrepancy between the environment I am using to build the site vs environment used by GitHub actions
• There is that and the potential overhead of wanting to upgrade the tech stack for the website, but having do surgery on the actions instead of simply experimenting with my own local environment. Perhaps it is simple enough to finalize whatever tweaks I am doing and simply revise the environment for the actions.

Any thoughts on this?

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I would not be able to view the HTML that actually got built before it goes live. That is, there could be a discrepancy between the environment I am using to build the site vs environment used by GitHub actions

I don't think there would be too much real difference between the HTML you build locally (using conda) and the HTML GitHub builds if you setup the GitHub action to create a similar environment to your local machine (Windows 10 image, Conda, create-env from the .yaml file in the repo). I did some research, and there are already actions on the GitHub market that supports this sort of setup (see setup-conda). Even if you absolutely need to verify the build, there are tools (see act) that allow you to run the actions locally.

There is that and the potential overhead of wanting to upgrade the tech stack for the website, but having do surgery on the actions instead of simply experimenting with my own local environment. Perhaps it is simple enough to finalize whatever tweaks I am doing and simply revise the environment for the actions.

In my experience it's not much work to revise the environment once you've got the setup figured out locally.

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