[HOLD for payment 2023-10-16] Set up preview builds for HelpDot

[roryabraham]

Slack context: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1695766723259829

cc @rushatgabhane

Problem

We can easily make mistakes when adding articles to HelpDot. And testing locally requires setup.
To ensure nothing is breaking, an engineer has to review the PR when adding articles to HelpDot. This takes our precious time!!

Why this is important

We want HelpDot to be mostly maintained by non-engineers. They can create an adjust articles just by creating markdown files. However, they cannot actually test or preview their changes without a dev environment setup.

Solution

Deploy helpsite PR previews to netlify. It generates a deploy preview for PRs. https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/deploy-previews/

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @twisterdotcom (NewFeature), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/14418#:~:text=BugZero%20process%20steps%20for%20feature%20requests for more details.

[roryabraham]

Setup steps:

1. create a free Netlify account
2. deploy existing project using GitHub
3. install Netlify on Expensify/App

[roryabraham]

Might need ring0 help for the third step

[roryabraham]

Created Netflify account under reactnative@expensify.com – password is in the ring3 bucket in 1P

[rushatgabhane]

@roryabraham we'll need to add a env variable to specify the node version for npm ci to work

nvm, it can be done in config file

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @fukawi2 (ring0), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/6102 for more details.

[roryabraham]

@fukawi2 There should be a pending request to configure Netlify with Expensify/App:

[roryabraham]

Additional infra discussion: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C094TGUTZ/p1696058736845509

[roryabraham]

Sounds like we might use Cloudflare instead of Netlify for this.

[roryabraham]

Tagging in @coleaeason to help set that up - sounds like it will be easy

[rushatgabhane]

@roryabraham awesome, I'll close my PR

Here is the build command -
npm ci && cd docs && bundle install && npm run createDocsRoutes && bundle exec jekyll build

[coleaeason]

Working on this now, should have it done today or tomorrow.

[coleaeason]

PR is up! Builds will fail until that PR is merged.

[melvin-bot]

Reviewing label has been removed, please complete the "BugZero Checklist".

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 1.3.79-5 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• Setup Cloudflare Pages for Docs Preview #28886

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[rushatgabhane]

Thanks for the help everyone! @roryabraham we can close this issue?