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Use Vercel to host the app

See original GitHub issue

Using the GitHub page to host the app has several drawbacks:

Not easy to preview the pending change
No existing CI/CD support
No way to have a preview version for PR

I suggest using https://vercel.com/ to host the app. This is a version I deployed: https://test.xcv58.vercel.app/conwnet/github1s/blob/HEAD/src/vs/code/browser/workbench/workbench.ts

There are two drawbacks:

Price

And the drawback is Vercel is not a free service but the price is cheap https://vercel.com/pricing. I paid around $3 per month and the majority part is custom domains.

And I can help to request a free or discounted account for this project.

CI/CD setup

~~I don’t know whether Vercel supports the toolchain to build VSCode. I could reach to their customer support to check whether there is any similar setup/use-case.~~

~~But in the worst case, we could use CircleCI (free service) to build the artifact and integrate it with Vercel.~~

Just for reference

The steps to deploy under my Vercel account:

Run yarn & yarn build
cd dist and make a vercel.json file with the content:

{
  "routes": [{
      "src": "/static/(.*)",
      "dest": "/images/$1"
    },
    {
      "src": "/favicon.ico",
      "dest": "/favicon.ico"
    },
    {
      "src": "/manifest.json",
      "dest": "/manifest.json"
    },
    {
      "src": ".*",
      "dest": "/index.html"
    }
  ]
}