@plugdash/autobuild

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

  1. 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.

AutobuildConfig

optiontypedefaultdescription
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

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npm install @plugdash/readtime

tocgen

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npm install @plugdash/tocgen
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