Move site to Netlify?

[Daniel15]

This would allow us to add custom build steps, which is needed if we want to compile JavaScript on the site itself using Babel (for example, to convert the REPL into a React component #1287).

I created a Babel site on Netlify as a proof-of-concept: https://babel.netlify.com/. This is basically the same as the current site, running jekyll build to build it. We'd just need to point the babeljs.io domain to Netlify to move across. As a bonus, we could get proper end-to-end SSL rather than the CloudFlare one that's unencrypted from CloudFlare to the origin.

[Daniel15]

The other advantage of Netlify is that it builds a preview version of the website for each pull request

Example PR: https://github.com/Daniel15/babel-site/pull/2/files
Preview for that PR: https://deploy-preview-2--babel.netlify.com/

[hzoo]

Ok that's really cool too!

• https
• faster?
• PR build
• build step

all sounds good to me?

cc @thejameskyle on the domain?

[Daniel15]

This is ready to go, just need to get the DNS updated.

Netlify is so fast... It's building pull requests in around 55 seconds. In the time it takes for Travis to simply spin up the environment (install Node.js, Rubygems, and npm packages), Netlify has already built and deployed the preview site.

[Daniel15]

Done! Feel free to ping me directly if you notice any brokenness.