stack-orchestrator/docs/webapp.md

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### Building and Running Webapps
It is possible to build and run Next.js webapps using the `build-webapp` and `run-webapp` subcommands.
To make it easier to build once and deploy into different environments and with different configuration,
compilation and static page generation are separated in the `build-webapp` and `run-webapp` steps.
This offers much more flexibilty than standard Next.js build methods, since any environment variables accessed
via `process.env`, whether for pages or for API, will have values drawn from their runtime deployment environment,
not their build environment.
## Building
Building usually requires no additional configuration. By default, the Next.js version specified in `package.json`
is used, and either `yarn` or `npm` will be used automatically depending on which lock files are present. These
can be overidden with the build arguments `CERC_NEXT_VERSION` and `CERC_BUILD_TOOL` respectively. For example: `--extra-build-args "--build-arg CERC_NEXT_VERSION=13.4.12"`
**Example**:
```
$ cd ~/cerc
$ git clone git@git.vdb.to:cerc-io/test-progressive-web-app.git
$ laconic-so build-webapp --source-repo ~/cerc/test-progressive-web-app
...
Built host container for ~/cerc/test-progressive-web-app with tag:
cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local
To test locally run:
laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file /path/to/environment.env
```
## Running
With `run-webapp` a new container will be launched on the local machine, with runtime configuration provided by `--env-file` (if specified) and published on an available port. Multiple instances can be launched with different configuration.
**Example**:
```
# Production env
$ laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file /path/to/environment/production.env
Image: cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local
ID: 4c6e893bf436b3e91a2b92ce37e30e499685131705700bd92a90d2eb14eefd05
URL: http://localhost:32768
# Dev env
$ laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file /path/to/environment/dev.env
Image: cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local
ID: 9ab96494f563aafb6c057d88df58f9eca81b90f8721a4e068493a289a976051c
URL: http://localhost:32769
```
## Deploying
Use the subcommand `deploy-webapp create` to make a deployment directory that can be subsequently deployed to a Kubernetes cluster.
Example commands are shown below, assuming that the webapp container image `cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local` has already been built:
```
$ laconic-so deploy-webapp create --kube-config ~/kubectl/k8s-kubeconfig.yaml --image-registry registry.digitalocean.com/laconic-registry --deployment-dir webapp-k8s-deployment --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --url https://test-pwa-app.hosting.laconic.com/ --env-file test-webapp.env
$ laconic-so deployment --dir webapp-k8s-deployment push-images
$ laconic-so deployment --dir webapp-k8s-deployment start
```