NextJS rebuild periodically / "cronjob"

[josias-r]

I was looking into the API of a shop. They want you to import the products you create in that shop every day for example (and I think that's a conventional way of doing it) if you decide to create your own shop instead of using one of their services.

I was wondering if something like that is possible in NextJS?

I know that with methods like getStaticPaths I could use their API endpoint to build a NextJS powered webshop. But like I mentioned this would require the website to be rebuilt about every 24 hours or so.

Is there something like that possible with now and NextJS? Or are there other alternatives?

[brianlovin]

You can use GitHub actions to do this. Here's an example action running on a cron: https://github.com/specfm/design-details/blob/master/.github/workflows/deploy.yml

name: weekly episode deployment

on:
  schedule:
    - cron:  '30 12 * * 3'

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: amondnet/now-deployment@v2
        with:
          zeit-token: ${{ secrets.ZEIT_TOKEN }}
          now-args: '--prod'
          now-org-id: ${{ secrets.ZEIT_ORG_ID }}
          now-project-id: ${{ secrets.ZEIT_PROJECT_ID}}

These secrets can be found after you link a project for the first time with now. This generates a .now directory in your project, which contains a project.json file with the orgId and projectId values. Then you'll add those as secrets in your repo settings (https://github.com/{your repo url}/settings/secrets). The zeit-token can be found in your Vercel project settings (https://vercel.com/account/tokens)

[josias-r]

Hmm alright, seems like a nice alternative, thanks 😁

[brianlovin]

Alternatively, Vercel supplies deploy web hooks that you can ping manually, if you wanted something a bit more specific outside a cron. Good luck!

[IRediTOTO]

I use Heroku, can I use this ?

[taviroquai]

I will also post my need here because I also need to update the build as soon as data coming from getInitialProps changes (basicaly this is like a cms, user changes data in backoffice and he wants to see it deployed in the build promptly).

This as nothing to do with the github, vercel or any other infrastructure...

[timneutkens]

See #11552

[IRediTOTO]

I use getStaticProps and getStaticPath to create static url. And I use api to fetch new data too. It will be always newest data. Did you try ?