Boost Your Frontend Project Efficiency: Unleashing On-demand Feature Environments with AWS and Github Actions

Malith Priyashan
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7 min readMay 19, 2023

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Github Actions made it easier to automate many things to help developer’s day to day work. This article will guide you to build On-demand feature environments for your frontend application using Github Actions.

On-demand feature environments has the capability of creating isolated, temporary environments to develop, test, and deploy specific features or changes in a software application. These environments are created as needed, on-demand, and this can be a part of the deployment pipeline

This article exclusively focuses on React Static Applications hosted in Amazon S3

There are managed AWS services like Amplify to deploy your React application in a few steps then you will already have an on-demand feature environments. But you don’t need a server to host a React static web application. If you are using S3 buckets to host your application, setting up feature environment is much more complicated.

This article assumes you already have a functional React project or any other frontend framework with a static build feature. It does not provide instructions on building or creating such a project.

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