We use a poly repo structure for a few reasons, but the main one is that we can make use of GitHub pages for each repo separately. That way we can deploy our documentation, test coverage, or even a full web app without extra fees. That comes with some drawbacks, but some benefits as well. We publish individual releases from each repo and use this repo to deploy them.
We use Dokku for deployment. The main reason is that it's quite easy to set up, scale, and maintain. You can however deploy it locally as well using Docker.
First build it 🛠
docker build --tag baby-project .Then run it 🏃
docker run --detach --publish 8080:80 baby-projectThen go to
localhost:8080
and then you have the production environment running locally.
The official deployment to the server is done through GitHub actions. The process is basically just bumping the version in
the .env file that we keep in the version control and create a PR. Only organization members can create PRs for this repo.
This is only for safety reasons. We don't want anyone to deploy unwanted changes.