Dev deploys with netlify

[klieret]

Using a setup with http://netlify.com/, we could get build previews for all PRs. This is basically zero configuration and free. The only limitation is that only one user can be an admin for a free netlify project and there are some rate limitation. But we could still have the main build be run by github pages, so that this would be just an addon.

[klieret]

This is what we're doing with https://github.com/hsf-training/training-center (if you check any PR, you can see links to previews).

What do you think @hegner @graeme-a-stewart

[graeme-a-stewart]

Hi @klieret - apologies for the tardy response! Yes, it does seem like a good idea. Setting up Jekyll locally is quite fiddly (brew upgraded my Ruby to 3.3 recently and this seems not to work with GitHub Pages, so now I have to fiddle in a Ruby 3.2 version to work with the website). It would also help reviewers, who would not have to build a PR to check it.

[graeme-a-stewart]

Fixed with #1643