diff --git a/docs/webapp.md b/docs/webapp.md index 19122d46..ed321cb4 100644 --- a/docs/webapp.md +++ b/docs/webapp.md @@ -1,25 +1,21 @@ ### Building and Running Webapps -It is possible to build and run webapps using the `build-webapp` and `run-webapp` subcommand. +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 to with varying configuration, compilation and static -page generation are separated in the `build-webapp` and `run-webapp` steps, and the use of the -environment variables via `process.env` is detected at compile-time and placeholder substituted -which will be filled in at runtime. +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 in configuration and deployment than standard build methods. +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. -## Build +## Building ``` $ 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 ... -Successfully tagged cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local - - -################################################################# Built host container for ~/cerc/test-progressive-web-app with tag: @@ -31,7 +27,7 @@ To test locally run: ``` -## Run +## Running ``` $ laconic-so run-webapp --image cerc/test-progressive-web-app:local --env-file ~/tmp/env.igloo