What are best practices for keeping up to date?

[andrewringler]

I am wondering what would be a recommended best practice for keeping up to date with the latest changes to the Speckle code-base in a production installation (not using Docker). I am thinking the following might work:

• fork SpeckleServer
• fork SpeckleAdmin
• npm run build and commit the dist folder to my fork of SpeckleAdmin
• in my SpeckleServer fork add another plugins folder called my-plugins
• in my SpeckleServer fork checkout SpeckleAdmin as a submodule into my-plugins/SpeckleAdmin
• in my SpeckleServer fork add any files needed for my deploy
• in my SpeckleServer fork make sure my deploy does a checkout of all submodules

Anytime SpeckleServer has new updates merge the changes into my fork. Do the same with SpeckleAdmin.

Any thoughts? Thanks, Andrew

[PaulPoinet]

Hi Andrew, I personally clone the repos I need, create a branch for my development work, npm run build , node server.js for testing, merge changes from master into my branch everytime I am behind it, potentially merge my branch into master once I am not with dev work. Quite straightforward and no idea if this is a "best practice"...

[andrewringler]

Thanks for the quick reply.

So, currently I am doing an automatic deployment on commits to my master branch of SpeckleServer. I have committed SpeckleAdmin into the plugins folder so that SpeckleServer can find it and use it. The main problem with this setup is SpeckleAdmin isn't actually connected to the SpeckleAdmin repo anymore (i just copied the files), so I can't really make changes to SpeckleAdmin and submit pull requests. Also, if I try to merge SpeckleServer or do pull requests for SpeckleServer updates I am going to have issues with my plugins folder.

How do you manage your plugins folder? Do you use plugins? Do you just copy plugins manually into the plugins folder on your server? Are you managing your own server/web folders, IE SSH into it and do git pulls to get a new version? If this is the case how do you test things locally? IE how do you test updates to SpeckleAdmin code?