I made this tool (dokku-pages) to deploy static sites on dokku

[benwinding]

Hey Dokku!

It's been about 5 years since I first started with dokku, and I love the stability and ease of use. The only hard part was deploying static HTML sites, which seemed to be a bit convoluted.

So I built dokku-pages, which is a small tool to build a tiny container for static hosting.

# Install 
npm i -g dokku-pages

# SIMPLE - Push "public" directory to dokku app named myapp
dokku-pages deploy -g [email protected]:myapp -d public/

# ADVANCED - Also use minimal image (%95 smaller), also use CORS headers for and example.com subdomain
dokku-pages deploy -g [email protected]:myapp -d public/ --minimal --allow-cors '.+\\.example.com'

And I put it in my package.json to use in CI deploys

  "scripts": {
    "deploy": "dokku-pages deploy -g [email protected]:blog -d public/" 
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "dokku-pages": "^1.0.9"
  }

There's many solutions for static hosting, but creating apps quickly in dokku is just so much easier and is under our control!

Anyway, that's me showing and telling, let me know what you think! 👍