Review apps using fly.io

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Yesterday, I tried to build a review app to migrate a Next.js app from Vercel to Fly. So, I configured a GitHub Action to handle it, and it works very well. Here is an example:

name: Staging App
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize, closed]

env:
  FLY_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FLY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
  FLY_REGION: gru
  FLY_ORG: personal
  NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL: https://myurl.com/api

jobs:
  staging_app:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Only run one deployment at a time per PR.
    concurrency:
      group: app-name-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

    # Create a GitHub deployment environment per staging app so it shows up
    # in the pull request UI.
    environment:
      name: app-name-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
      url: ${{ steps.deploy.outputs.url }}

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup pnpm
        uses: pnpm/action-setup@v2
        with:
          version: latest

      - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
          cache: 'pnpm'

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile

      - name: Running tests (almost easy...)
        run: pnpm test

      - name: Deploy
        id: deploy
        uses: superfly/fly-pr-review-apps@1.0.0
        with:
          app-name: app-name-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

      - name: Clean up GitHub environment
        uses: strumwolf/delete-deployment-environment@v2
        if: ${{ github.event.action == 'closed' }}
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          environment: app-name-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}

That’s easy, and we can save money per seat in my team, and everyone can deploy things and see what happens. It’s easy to have a trunk-based development workflow in our team at AgendFlow.

Next, I will try to do the same with a Phoenix app, and I will return here to share.

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