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