LAB8_Verify and Deploy in Netlify

⚒️ Verify and Deploy in Netlify

Objectives

In this step, we will:

• Merge our code back to master and verify production application deployment

We will cover:

1. Merge back to master
2. Verify your deployment in Netlify
3. Feel the enormity of your accomplishment

1. Merge back to master

Now it's time to merge ALL of the changes from the last 3 sections back to master. This will kick off an automated deploy to Netlify and get our changes ready for production.

✅ Step 1a: Merge our changes

📘 Commands to execute

git add functions/insertGame.js test/insertGame.test.js
git commit -m "Merging insertGame and insertGame.test.js into master"
git push

✅ Step 1b: Create a PR in GitHub to kick off CI/CD pipeline and Deploy Preview in Netlify

✔️ Once you've completed the push command above go back to YOUR battlestax repository in Github and create a Pull Request to merge the changes into master. Use the same exact process we used in LAB2 to do this.

If you need a refresher go HERE and then come back here to finish your deployment.

2. Verify your deployment in Netlify

✔️ When your new site is ready, you will be able to go to: <your_url>.netlify.app to see your game. To find your URL, navigate to Deploys in Netlify and click on the link provided via the UI.

✔️ Once clicked you should see a display like the following:

If you start new games it will create a new record in the database. If you want to validate this behavior click on START NEW GAME.

✔️ Open Astra UI, show the CQL Console and execute the following command (here battlestax is your keyspace and games your collection name - if you chose another names adapt the query accordingly).

📘 Command to execute

SELECT key, text_value FROM battlestax.games;

You should have a result that looks like the following image. If you see the game you just created in this list you know your application is properly hooked up to your database via the document API.

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3. Feel the enormity of your accomplishment

Alrighty, let's sum all this up. If you got to this point you have now deployed an application through a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions using serverless functions that are globally available via Netlify all backed by the top NoSQL distributed database Apache Cassandra on DataStax Astra without ever touching a server, deploying back-end code, or needing to talk to your IT folks (no harm meant to my IT friends).

If your app goes viral this tech stack will scale with you.

You did this completely from front-end, fullstack knowledge. No back-end needed. Awe...some!

Now go take this knowledge and go create the next disruptive application.

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