Live demo doesn't work

[JohnReedLOL]

When I click the live demo I get this:

"This site can’t be reachedtypescript-node-starter.azurewebsites.net’s server IP address could not be found.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN"

[JohnReedLOL]

This is the same issue from Oct 24: #243

[orta]

We should probably remove this? Or automate it via GitHub Actions?

[bmiddha]

We should probably remove this? Or automate it via GitHub Actions?

@orta I could work on the Azure app deployment (Azure/webapps-deploy) with a GitHub Actions workflow. It will need Azure Publish Profile secret configured in this GitHub Repository. Is that something that can be configured?

[bmiddha]

We should probably remove this? Or automate it via GitHub Actions?

@orta #268 should solve it.

[alectrocute]

It's down again :(

[naknode]

It is still down.

[bmiddha]

Related PR: #302

[gaborszita]

It's still not working.

[jkirkpatrick]

Over 9 months to fix a url in a README doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Can anyone fix this issue before it's first birthday?

[gaborszita]

We're having this issue over like a year and a half now, so why can't just a maintainer push this project to a service like Heroku? It could be done under half an hour and would end all this mess.

Over 9 months to fix a url in a README doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Can anyone fix this issue before it's first birthday?

Uhm, we already hit its first birthday. We're approaching its second birthday. 😂

[alectrocute]

Almost forgot to wish this issue a happy birthday 🎂

[orta]

Pushing it to some random service is always the easy quick answer but three times now it has gone down for whatever reasons, and someone's moved it to another server. I couldn't find access to any of them in azure. So, I've removed all the references to a demo link in the README.

[jkirkpatrick]

@orta That's the fix, remove the links? MS owns github now... isn't it possible to get it running on a GhPages branch and provide even more value to those cloning this starter repo?

[gaborszita]

@orta That's the fix, remove the links? MS owns github now... isn't it possible to get it running on a GhPages branch and provide even more value to those cloning this starter repo?

The issue is that GitHub Pages can only serve static pages.

[alectrocute]

How about Azure?

[jkirkpatrick]

@orta That's the fix, remove the links? MS owns github now... isn't it possible to get it running on a GhPages branch and provide even more value to those cloning this starter repo?

The issue is that GitHub Pages can only serve static pages.

One option is to add a mongo-dump step to create a JSON file and allow it to be served static? If the problem is that it's a kitchen sink starter kit that can neither be reliably demonstrated, nor reliably hosted by the creators' own cloud service - maybe it requires some non-trivial redesign.