Whatsdeployed facelift

05 January 2018 0 comments Python, Web development, Mozilla, Docker

https://whatsdeployed.io/

tl;dr; Whatsdeployed.io is an impressively simple web app to help web developers and web ops people quickly see what GitHub commits have made it into your Dev, Stage or Prod environment. Today it got a facelift.

The code is now more than 5 years old and has served me well. It's weird to talk too positively about the app because I actually wrote it but because it's so simple in terms of design and effort it feels less personal to talk about it.

Here's what's in the facelift

Upgraded to Bootstrap 4.
Instead of relying on downloading a heavy Glyphicon web font, just to display a single checkmark, that's now a simple image.
Ability to use a GitHub developer personal token to avoid rate limitations on GitHub's API.
The first lookup to get all commits is now done via the Flask app to use my auth token to avoid the rate limit.
Much better error handling if any of the underlying requests.get() that the Flask app does, fails. Also includes which URL it failed on.
Basic validation to prevent submitting the main form without typing anything in.
You can hack on it with Docker. Thanks @willkg.
Improved the code that extracts Bugzilla bug numbers out of commit messages. Thanks @edmorely.
Refreshed screenshots in the README.md
A brand new introduction text on the home page for people who end up on the site not knowing what it is.
If any XHR errors happen figuring out the "culprits", you now get a pretty error describing this instead of swallowing it all.

Whatsdeployed facelift

https://whatsdeployed.io/

Here's what's in the facelift

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