Pure infrastructure

Publish in the admin. Live in 60 seconds.

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Fires your Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, or Vercel build hook on every publish. No git push. No manual redeploy. The admin becomes the thing that moves the site.

npm install @plugdash/autobuild

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import autobuild from "@plugdash/autobuild"
// in emdash plugins array:
autobuild({
  hookUrl: import.meta.env.CF_PAGES_DEPLOY_HOOK,
  allowedHosts: ["api.cloudflare.com"],
})

publish in admin->hook fires->deploy kicks off->live

No UI. Pure infrastructure.

Setup

Install and register

npm install @plugdash/autobuild

import autobuild from "@plugdash/autobuild"
// in emdash plugins array:
autobuild({
  hookUrl: import.meta.env.CF_PAGES_DEPLOY_HOOK,
  allowedHosts: ["api.cloudflare.com"],
})

Get your build hook URL from Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, or Vercel. Paste it as an env var. After this, every publish rebuilds the site. Debounces 5 seconds so a batch of publishes triggers one deploy, not ten.

It looks right. But it's yours to change.

Config options

option	type	default	description
`method`	`"POST" \| "GET"`	`"POST"`	HTTP method for the hook
`collections`	`string[]`		Which collections trigger rebuilds
`statuses`	`string[]`	`["published"]`	Trigger only on these statuses
`debounceMs`	`number`	`5000`	Debounce window for rapid publishes
`body`	`string \| object`		Optional request body
`headers`	`object`		Optional extra headers

Pairs well with

these write metadata on publish. autobuild makes sure the live site sees the new metadata within a minute.

readtime

beta

Readers decide in three seconds. Give them a reason to stay.

npm install @plugdash/readtime

tocgen

beta

Long posts deserve navigation. Your readers will find what they came for.

npm install @plugdash/tocgen