Automatically Deploying Nuxt.js + Express app on Now

#devops #nuxt #node

I published a demo project that can help you understand deployment environments on Now.sh and how to automatically push to those environments using Github Actions.

Here's the link to the project: https://github.com/msurguy/nuxt-express-now

More about the repository:

The project has minimal structure to it, but it achieves the goals of demonstrating automatic deployments. It:

Uses latest stable version of Nuxt and Express (currently Nuxt 2.9.2)
Uses API endpoint from the ENV file (or from Now.json files)
Uses Github actions to deploy when a tag with a specific pattern is pushed
Uses ES6 in Node server code
Uses basic auth that is conditionally enabled / disabled via env variable
Automatically trims old deployments (that are not aliased) once a week

Assumptions

The default branch is staging. All PRs in the project are made against that branch
When testing is done on staging and approved, PR is opened against master
When this project is automatically deployed via Now + Github integration (not through Github Action), it uses now.json as the config.

Here's the diagram of what's happening when you push certain tags to the Github repository: