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Continuously deploy a React App to GitLab Pages

If you're looking for a simple way to deploy a CRA app everytime you push new changes, Gitlab Pages can be a great way to do this. By the end of this article you'll learn how to: * setup a GitLab CI pipeline to build the app on every new commit

Three ways to reuse commands across Gitlab jobs

As soon as your pipeline grows a little bit beyond basic, it's common to get into a situation where a lot of the commands you run in each job are the same. So how can you reduce this duplication? And should you? In general, it's ok to have a bit

Strategies for migrating from GitHub to GitLab

Ooh, that moment when you decide to move to GitLab ❤️ It's all great, until you realize there are all these loose ends you need to think about 🙈 * will the git commit authors be kept correctly after the import? * can I migrate issues / pull requests ? * can I just stop the existing

Using multiline strings in GitLab YML file

Sometimes your script is too long and it doesn't fit on one line: script: - docker run --name build-container --tag gitlab:demo --workdir /project --build-arg SOME_VAR=123 custom-image . It would be nice to be able to split this on multiple lines, just like you can do on the shell

Keep authors when importing from GitHub to GitLab

I recently migrated a repository from GitHub to GitLab and noticed that all pull requests and all issues are assigned to me (the user that triggered the import), instead of the actual authors in GitHub! What happened? It seems that GitLab matches users based on their email addresses and you

Sync mirrored GitLab repository automatically on every push to GitHub

Did you successfully setup pull mirroring between GitHub and GitLab, but are disappointed to see changes only get synced every 30 minutes? Luckily, GitLab does support automatically pulling on every push to GitHub, it's just a bit hidden in their docs 😅 In my case, I setup Gitlab as CI/CD