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Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

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Re: Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

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Post by sotojuan »

I'm not a paying customer of or affiliated with Surge—just a happy user.

Surge is what I've always wanted to when I do frontend development for fun and learning. This is especially true if you're new. When you're new, you don't want to set up a server to push to Heroku or Digital Ocean, you may not want to use GitHub pages, or other alternatives (not aware of all, just the ones I mentioned). You may still be new to git and git-based deployments.

Surge is simple: `surge -p build` will upload the `build` directory and give you a nice HTTPS URL to share with your friends. `surge` does the same with the current directory. You can pick a URL under their domain or use one you own. It all takes a few seconds. Perfect for portfolios, demos, etc.

If you use npm you can `npm install --save-dev surge` and add a script that does your production build step and then calls surge to deploy it.

Very underrated service!

Re: Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

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Post by nathancahill »

Love Surge so much. The CLI interface is stellar. We use it for testing feature branches of frontend code. Writing a tool to automatically spin up an environment for every pull request (alongside the CI). Helps the whole team test new features without having to pull down the branch and review locally.

Re: Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

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Post by juandazapata »

Nice service, but too expensive to be honest. My static websites (built with middleman) are hosted in Amazon S3 as a static website bucket and have a Cloudfront distribution in front of it. I use `middleman s3_sync` to deploy the build in one command and it takes care of everything, even Cloudfront invalidation. All for just a few pennies per month.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Re: Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

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Post by damaru »

As a web developer I feel sometime solution like that remove the understanding of how the internet works. This script can be replaced by a tiny shell script, that runs a rsync of the dev folder to your server, and I think it is important to know basic scripting like that even for a front end dev. I have to say that I haven't tried the script but I haven't seen anything impressive from the presentation video.

Re: Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers

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Post by davidcelis »

juandazapata wrote: post #8

Nice service, but too expensive to be honest. My static websites (built with middleman) are hosted in Amazon S3 as a static website bucket and have a Cloudfront distribution in front of it. I use `middleman s3_sync` to deploy the build in one command and it takes care of everything, even Cloudfront invalidation. All for just a few pennies per month. Anyway, keep up the good work.

This is the same reason I ended up with S3/Cloudfront as well. A while ago, I was moving my site from GitHub Pages. I wanted HTTPS for my custom domain and more control over how my site was cached. I looked at Surge and, as much as I loved their defaults and CLI tool, that $13/mo price tag was too high.
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