DIY Gasby Cloud?

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Hi folks!

Have had an idea gnawing at me, and figured I’d go ahead and throw it out here. Haven’t been able to find something exactly along the lines of what I have in mind, so maybe it’s a bad idea. but here goes:

I love Meteor for custom apps, but for years have used Wordpress for more static / blog sites. However, I’ve had about all of the plugin / CSS / code bloat and conflict issues I can handle, so I’m looking for a way to build lightweight, custom websites (not apps) with a React frontend – that are then served from a CDN.

Gasby Cloud and others offer similar ($$$) services, but being a good dev, I was trying to figure out a more DIY approach.

The ideal workflow is:

  1. Build a Meteor / React app locally
  2. Test locally w/ beta environment on Galaxy / DO
  3. When ready to go to production, deploy to CDN
  4. CDN then grabs / generates completely prebuilt static pages for the site
  5. Live domain and client requests are all served via the CDN. Doesn’t touch Meteor / React / anything other than prebuilt, minimized HTML, JS, CSS.

It seems like Netlify would be the ideal lynchpin for this workflow, but it’s almost too “all-in-one”. I’d like to have more visibility into the process, and more separation between the test and live environments.

Is this already being done and my Google skills just missed it?

Thanks!

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If I understand you correctly, you want to use Meteor to help manage the dynamic content, but publish a static snapshot for public consumption. The public snapshot uses React for presentation.

I did something similar for my research group website:

The workflow is:

  1. Edit some local json files by hand.
  2. Build the static snapshot locally.
  3. Publish the static files to a CDN (in this case, GitHub Pages).

In your case, it appears you want a more sophisticated approach to step (1).

Good luck, hope this helps!
Philip

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