Consider Changing PR Preview Configuration

[nerddtvg]

Netlify has served us well for deployment previews but when builds fail, it's hard to re-run them due to the lack of licensing.

GitHub Pages is coming out with a PR Preview feature but it is currently in Alpha. Can we volunteer for testing access if we report issues?

• https://github.com/marketplace/actions/deploy-github-pages-site
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/7730

Can we consider using the deploy-pr-preview Action published here instead?

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/deploy-pr-preview

This Action would deploy the preview as a subfolder under our existing site, one that can be removed after PRs are merged as well. Seems easy to use and decently supported.

[nerddtvg]

Issues possibly related to the failing builds:

npm/cli#4652
nodejs/node#47130 (comment) (Node v19 but we use v18)
node-fetch/node-fetch#1735

[nerddtvg]

Turns out the deploy-pr-preview action is for classic GitHub Pages which deploys off a branch instead of as immutable copies. We need to use something else. A static site running on S3 or Azure Storage would be pretty easy to setup per-PR and destroy when the PR is closed.

Example:
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/s3-website-pr