Topobot 🐭 – CI FTW

Topobot is running on a Raspberry PI in my home, but I develop the code on my laptop, so I  had very simple workflow:

• Work on the local dev on my laptop
• Commit changes to master
• Push changes to GitHub
• SSH on the Raspberry PI
• Pull master from Github
• Restart the node server that runs Topobot

It was fine for a few days, but then I went for a better workflow.

I created a listener with Nginx, a very basic CGI to pull from GitHub and restart the node server. I configured a webhook on GitHub at voilà, CI like a boss.

Now I simply have to:

• Work on the local dev on my laptop
• Commit changes to master
• Push changes to GitHub

The basic CI takes care of the rest and in a few seconds, a new Topobot is alive and kicking. There will be some Unit Testing at some point, maybe.