Any recommendations for hosting elm examples?

[rupert]

I have seen this one mentioned a couple of times on Slack?

About ZEIT

Has anyone a recommended way of publishing elm examples? So I can put up bigger pieces of work than a typically Ellie to share demos. Maybe someone has a build script to share that publishes an example?

[Sidney]

If you’ve got static content, Github Pages is convenient and pretty easy to use. (There are NPM packages that will automate the deploy process – try searching for gh pages deploy).

If you need server-side processing with the language of your choice, the only free solution I know of is Heroku (edit:) and Zeit (but they’re limited). For paid solutions, Zeit’s Now, Heroku, and Digital Ocean are all great. I believe Ellie uses Zeit’s Now.

[rupert]

Thanks, Github pages will do nicely, don’t need any server-side.

[joakin]

I usually use https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages with the Command line utility docs method:

{
  "scripts": {
    "deploy": "gh-pages -d public"
  }
}

[fizwidget]

+1 for Github pages. I’ve hacked together a deployment script for using it in my projects, but sounds like I could replace that with the gh-pages util mentioned above!

[mattpiz]

By the way, it is not for permanent hosting, but if you want to show an elm app of yours for a few minutes to a friend not on the same local network than you, ngrok is awesome. You just start your local server, say python -m http.server 8888, then you start ngrok, ngrok http 8888 and in few seconds it gives you a generated address like http://b938248cd.ngrok.io that you can share with your friends and is a realtime proxy to your local server. There are of course limitations (nb connections, etc.) but for the use case of just showing temporarily to friend / collegue for demo, I find it perfect.

[joakin]

ngrok is awesome

Shout out to localtunnel too as a ngrok alternative, great tools!

[edkv]

@rupert Firebase is also a good option