29 Dec 2020
Due to the fact that the indieweb is based on interaction between webservers I find it hard to test things not in production. Which is tempting especially because I really do not think my website is visited that often.
But as a developer I also have to keep the standard high because it may be difficult to maintain two very different standards in the freetime and at work. One thing I think nobody wants to end up with is being bad at their job. But enough for the philosophical talk ☺.
To solve the complexity of testing there is now a staging area for this website. If there is ever a need for serverside testing the pipeline will be like this:
- Write the code of the experimental feature
- Push it to the staging branch on gitlab
- Gitlab will run a build
- Vercel will get the code
- Vercel will deploy the webpage to staging.hoschi-it.de
- There the manual or automated tests can take place
