Sidebar links broken in preview about primer-spec

[seshrs]

Very weird bug! My guess is that this is happening only now because GitHub Pages deployments have moved to GitHub Actions. But I'm going to need to debug this further.

[noah-weingarden]

Unfortunately, the sidebar tutorial links are currently broken as described in this issue for the production build of project 4.

[seshrs]

😱 oof, thanks for raising! I'm looking into this now.

[seshrs]

I quickly suspected that the issue was related to the baseurl property, but it took me several embarrassing commits to properly fix seshrs/build-primer-spec-action 😅

If you're curious, this is the fix: https://github.com/seshrs/build-primer-spec-action/blob/e04cb027b517ccf0aa6ea99397d73375169cf6c0/action.yml#L16-L33

And if you're curious what baseurl does in Jekyll, here's a TLDR:

https://eecs485staff.github.io/p4-mapreduce/heapq.html
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^ path
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ baseurl (was being set to 'pages' by default for some reason)
^^^^^^^^^^^^ url ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(Further reading: https://mademistakes.com/mastering-jekyll/site-url-baseurl/)

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I took the liberty of re-running the deploy job (attempt 2) for the P4 website. The links in the Sidebar now work!

[noah-weingarden]

Huh, that isn't very well-documented in GitHub Pages/Jekyll, is it? Thanks Sesh!