Using Vercel (or a similar tool) to deploy previews of changes

[Ein-Tim]

Feature description

Vercel offers a GitHub App which deploys changes to a test environment so that they can there be reviewed and tested. It would be great if the CWA could use this feature, either from Vercel or build something like this themselves.

Problem and motivation

1. PR reviewing goes way easier for anyone, team and community
2. The server where the change is deployed to for review can be configured exactly as the PROD environment to be able to detect all issues before going live.

Is this something you're interested in working on

I can support, but I can't build something like this myself. Here is the Vercel documentation on this: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/git/vercel-for-github

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Internal Tracking ID: EXPOSUREAPP-13074

[svengabr]

We already had a similar discussion internally a while back before we introduced the new FAQ. The outcome was that the costs were too high in comparison to the benefit it would give.

I totally agree that it would be nice to have. We can for sure bring it up in our meetings.

[Ein-Tim]

@svengabr

Thanks for the feedback! Good to know that you discussed it already!

Yes, absolutely, setting up this is a huge workload, but it makes day-to-day routine work so much easier, that it could very well safe some work hours, once implemented.

It would be great if you could re-discuss this, maybe also mirror it to JIRA.

Thank you!