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Usage of GitHub preview bot

The GitHub integration guide explains how to install the Fru.io GitHub app. The Fru Preview bot requires a publicly visible email configured for your account in order to be able to perform authorization on each command.

You can create new sites from each repository selected as part of the GitHub app installation. With the Fru Preview bot, you can also clone existing sites and deploy them with code directly from a pull request as preview site for testing purposes. The commands are triggered as pull request comments, all you have to do is post the following comment:

/Fru-live-preview-site

The bot will build your Preview site and return a URL.

There are three pre-conditions for the Fru Preview bot to be able to create preview sites:

  • The Repository has to be part of your Fru.io GitHub app installation.
  • The Command has to be triggered by the pull request author.
  • The Existing origin site on Fru.io references the repository and pull request's base branch. This is used as a reference to copy the database and file assets.

A list of supported commands for the bot is available at https://docs.fru.io/ preview-bot.

Last update: 2021-09-22