Is there a build workflow for running a static website?

[shakenmanchild]

How can build be used in a workflow for testing a static HTML-based website from a gitlab or other git repository? Ideally I would be able to set up a build container with a gitlab/github or sftp location and then edit/commit to to the repo from blink, and then test the changes running in a build environment running nginx or httpd. Is this possible? How would I start setting it up?

[carloscabanero]

Yes, this is possible with Build and I do it all the time for our Blink homepage and docs. Here is how:

• When you run your build machine (by default with build mosh), you get a CLI with a default container that we called Hacker Tools. By default it includes Node, Rust, Go and many other runtimes and tools. This should have you covered for a static webpage.
• You can pull your gitlab repositories - https://docs.blink.sh/build/cloud_disk#repositories.
• For editors. You can use vim, emacs, helix, and install your dot files there. You can also install your own VS Code server in your build machine. We now provide a command code-tunnel, that will download VS Code and run it for you. Paste the URL it gives you on a different Blink Shell and do code <url>, that will connect you there.
• Run the web server for your static page and tunnel it. The Blink webpage is on Next.js, I use something like this: https://docs.blink.sh/build-up/nextjs. Here is python + flask https://docs.blink.sh/build-up/python_flask. You just need a local web server, nothing special like nginx or httpd.

That's all there is to it.