Review Apps

What are they?

Review apps are temporary and disposable instances of the Odin Project app attached to pull requests. They allow us to test changes made in a given pull request within a safe testing environment before we hit merge - without all the hassle of pulling down the changes to our local machines.

How do I create them?

• Review apps will be automatically created and attached to any pull request an Odin team member opens.
• They cost money for the length of time they exist. So we have them set up to be deleted 24 hours after creation. If you need to recreate a review app, simply add the "create-review-app" label to the PR and a GitHub action will take care of the rest.

Manually creating review apps

We only have a limited number of seats on Heroku, which means only a few maintainers have access to manually create review apps for the moment.

If you need a review app created manually, reach out to these maintainers.

• @CouchofTomato
• @rlmoser99
• @ChargrilledChook
• @KevinMulhern

How can I access them?

Look for the "View deployment" button within the pull requests activity feed. That will take you directly to the attached review app

Working with review apps:

Signing up/in

You cannot use Google/Github Oauth on review apps. Those services require a static callback url but each of our review apps has a different domain name. However, you can use our tester account to sign in using an email and password.

Tester credentials:

email: tester@odin.com

password: password

Testing learner solutions

• When you need to QA anything related to solutions. The best project to use is the recipes project on the Foundations path. We populate that project with a few dummy solutions to save you the time of doing it yourself.