pullmeapp

Deploy your pull requests instantly to ▲ Now

Features

Instant deploy

Deploy every pull request in your repository and get an unique URL on every commit.

Custom aliases

You are able to customize every pull request alias, pullmeapp provides some useful variables you can combine to shape your URL. For example, I'm personally using the following pattern https://pr-{pr}.{repo}.analogic.al

Getting started

Requirements

You will need to prepare the following

1. Now token
2. GitHub token with repo access
3. Set up a GitHub webhook with a secret

To get your Now token, head to your account settings and then to the Tokens section, create a new token and write it down somewhere.

To create a GitHub token, go to your account settings, click Developer settings and then choose Personal access tokens, create a new token and write down.

Deployment

In your terminal run the following now command:

now ricardocasares/pullmeapp --docker

▲ Now will ask for all the required environmental variables, these are the following:

DEBUG

This is useful to setup the debug level, if you want to see only pullmeapp logs, set it to pma. If you want to see all the logs (including express app logs) set it to *

GITHUB_TOKEN

GitHub personal access token

GITHUB_SECRET

This keyphrase needs to be setup both on the GitHub webhook and pullmeapp, make sure they match.

NOW_TOKEN

Now access token

NOW_ALIAS

This can be empty, a custom domain, or a domain template. In case you want to use templates, the following strings inside NOW_ALIAS are replaced by these values:

• {pr} is the GitHub pull request number.
• {author} is the PR author.
• {hash} is the commit short hash.
• {repo} is the repository name.

Make sure you always include the domain name, not just the subdomain, even when using now.sh urls, see some valid examples:

• domain.com will always alias all PR's to this domain.
• pr-{pr}-{repo}.domain.com will be replaced, for example, as pr-41-project.domain.com
• {pr}-{repo}.now.sh will use default now.sh domain.

Setup the webhook

Once you have deployed and optionally aliased your pullmeapp instance, go to your repository settings in GitHub, head to the Webhooks section and create a new webhook.

Set the Payload URL to match your deployment URL: https://pullmeapp.domain.com/webhook

Select application/json for the Content type.

Use your GITHUB_SECRET as your secret, and make sure it is the same you configured in the last step.

Select Let me select individual events and check the Pull request checkbox.

Create a new pull request and check everything is fine.

Happy staging!

Contributing

Pull requests and issues are very welcome.

Development

To improve the development workflow, make sure you add a .env file with all your environment variables so you can use npm run dev to get the service started.

Once you have the service up and running, you can use localtunnel to make your service visible from outside, run npm install -g localtunnel and then tunnel your server like this: lt --port 3000, you will get an URL like the following https://zoweubcixc.localtunnel.me and you can use this as your webhook for development.