09 - Deployment and Beyond
Deploying a freedom.js application is as easy as serving the static resources that compose it. As an example, we will use GitHub Pages as a convenient static host that can be deployed right along side your application repository.
To use GitHub pages we just need to:
- Create a
distdirectory containing what we want to deploy - Set up a
gh-pagesbranch as a subtree of the master repository - (Optional) provide a CNAME file so we can use our own domain
- (Optional but good idea) automate the deploy process with e.g. a Grunt task
You can read GitHub document for more details, and in general these principles should apply to other static hosts.
We will use
grunt-build-control to
facilitate the process. grunt-build-control makes it simple to set up and
manage branches. The Grunt task needs to specify a remote target as well as
related options (the local directory to commit, the message to add, etc.).
See the Dorabella task
as an example.