Deploy Plugins about metalsmith

[ianstormtaylor]

what are the other steps for trigger on build? just curious to try and understand the use case better

[esundahl]

Well initially I was thinking of a plugin that uploaded the destination directory to an S3 bucket after completion. After some thought though I realized it would probably be better to keep that functionality separate.

I agree with esundal. Every site needs deploying if it is not generated on the server side.

Write configuration like this:

{
  build: "github-or-others"
}

And the callback function of build method needs some changes:

// from modules, here just for simplicity
function github-or-others () {
  return function (err, metalsmith, files) {
    // let `this` be metalsmith?
  }
}

//site.build(github-or-others());

For the example above, I recommend setting this to metalsmith for the ease of use, too.

[christophercliff]

For deploying to S3, you guys might be interested in http://caisson.co/. I'm working on an update to make it more flexible with an API similar to Metalsmith: https://github.com/christophercliff/caisson/tree/pluggable

If you just want to push to Github pages, an npm script can do the job: https://github.com/christophercliff/christophercliff.github.com/blob/supermaster/package.json#L10

[derekconjar]

@christophercliff Thanks for sharing.

I'm trying to piece together an easy way to deploy many static sites to s3 at once and automatically set up the CloudFront distrubutions and Route53 zones when they don't exist. Looks like caisson will make that process much simpler.

[treygriffith]

Metalsmith already has a really good event for built - the callback. Since metalsmith is all about building, having a deploy module as metalsmith middleware doesn't give you any benefit that I can think of - you already get access to the file buffers as well as the directory it was written to.

You may want to look into https://www.npmjs.org/package/bucketful . It's a dumb uploader, so it doesn't delete existing files except for overwrites, and doesn't compare ETags before uploading - but it does everything you need to create a static s3 website deployment. It's worked well for me so far.

[ianstormtaylor]

+1 to @treygriffith here, closing for now