Deploy the web app from a push to main
Deploy web to NAS / deploy (push) Failing after 3s

Until now a server change reached the NAS only when someone ran ./release.sh --web
from a machine on the church network. That made the deploy depend on which laptop
was awake and where it was, which is the same fragility that let the nightly Drive
backup go stale unnoticed.

An act_runner now runs in Docker on the NAS itself and picks up this workflow, so
a push to main rebuilds the container regardless of where the push came from.

The workflow keeps the protections the old remote deploy script had, because they
are the ones that matter: server/data and server/.env are excluded from the copy
and then explicitly checked for afterwards, and the container is recreated with
'up -d --build' rather than 'down' first, so an interrupted deploy leaves the old
container serving instead of tearing the stack down. rsync runs without --delete,
matching the tarball deploy it replaces — a stale file is survivable, a wiped
data/ is not.

This covers the web app only. The iOS and Android apps bundle a copy of the UI at
build time, so they still need ./release.sh and a store release; server-side
changes reach them immediately, since they call this same server live.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Waters Church
2026-09-24 13:57:31 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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{
"name": "checklist",
"runtimeExecutable": "bash",
"runtimeArgs": ["-lc", "cd /Users/christian/Documents/checklist-transfer/recurring-checklist-app/server && ADMIN_PASSWORD=changeme REPORT_EMAIL='' PORT=4998 node server.js"],
"runtimeArgs": ["-lc", "cd /Users/christian/Documents/recurring-checklist-app/server && ADMIN_PASSWORD=changeme REPORT_EMAIL='' PORT=4998 node server.js"],
"port": 4998
}
]
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# Push to main -> the NAS rebuilds itself.
#
# This replaces having to run ./release.sh --web by hand for a server change. It does the
# same two things that script's remote half did, in the same order and with the same
# protections: copy server/ over the live directory, then recreate the container in place.
#
# It runs on the "nas" runner (act_runner, in Docker on the NAS itself), so it does not
# care whether the laptop is awake, on the church network, or in the building.
#
# NOT covered here on purpose: the iOS and Android apps. They bundle a copy of the web UI
# at build time (see mobile/scripts/sync-web.js), so a UI change only reaches phones via a
# new store release. Server-side changes reach them immediately, because they call this
# same server live.
name: Deploy web to NAS
on:
push:
branches: [main]
paths:
- 'server/**'
- '.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml'
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: nas
container:
image: node:20-alpine
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
# Mounted at the SAME path it has on the host. docker-compose.yml binds ./data
# relative to the compose file, and the daemon resolves that as a HOST path — so if
# this were mounted anywhere else the app would come up pointed at a directory that
# does not exist, with an empty data volume.
- /volume2/docker/recurring-checklist:/volume2/docker/recurring-checklist
steps:
- name: Install tools
run: apk add --no-cache docker-cli docker-cli-compose rsync
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Copy server files over the live directory
run: |
set -eu
DEST=/volume2/docker/recurring-checklist
test -f "$DEST/docker-compose.yml" || { echo "REFUSING: $DEST is not the deploy directory"; exit 1; }
# data/ holds the live checklists, uploads and backups; .env holds the admin and
# Gmail credentials. Neither is in git, and neither may ever be written here.
# No --delete: this mirrors the old tarball deploy, which only ever added and
# overwrote. A stale file left behind is survivable; a wiped data/ is not.
rsync -a \
--exclude 'data/' \
--exclude 'data-smoke/' \
--exclude '.env' \
--exclude 'node_modules/' \
server/ "$DEST/"
- name: Verify the live data and credentials survived
run: |
set -eu
DEST=/volume2/docker/recurring-checklist
test -f "$DEST/.env" || { echo "ABORT: .env is gone"; exit 1; }
test -d "$DEST/data" || { echo "ABORT: data/ is gone"; exit 1; }
echo ".env and data/ intact"
- name: Rebuild the container in place
# No 'down' first: that removes the container AND the network, so an interrupted
# deploy would leave the whole stack torn down. 'up -d --build' recreates only the
# app container, and the worst case on failure is the old one still serving.
run: docker compose -f /volume2/docker/recurring-checklist/docker-compose.yml up -d --build --remove-orphans
- name: Healthcheck
run: |
set -eu
for i in $(seq 1 20); do
S=$(docker inspect --format '{{.State.Health.Status}}' recurring-checklist 2>/dev/null || echo starting)
[ "$S" = "healthy" ] && { echo "container healthy"; exit 0; }
sleep 3
done
echo "container did not report healthy in time:"
docker ps --filter name=recurring-checklist --format '{{.Names}} {{.Status}}'
docker logs --tail 30 recurring-checklist
exit 1