Deploy a Frontend Interface
How to deploy a frontend interface and add to PlaceOS
CI/CD
To work with PlaceOS frontend repositories must have build artifacts committed to a standalone repository or branch.
The user-interfaces repository already has CI/CD pipelines setup using GitHub Actions.
The user-interfaces repository follows these steps for the build pipeline:
Commit made with changes to
libs
or an application(apps/<project>
)Pipeline in GitHub Actions starts
Install dependencies and build application(s)
Commit build artifacts to associated branch. For example, a development build of
workplace
will be committed tobuild/workplace/dev
Backoffice Setup
Once a build has been created it can be added to Backoffice so that frontends
service can pull down the interface.
Add Repository
Navigate to the repositories page

2. Add a new repository

Name should describe the UI
Folder name will be the path of the UI on the domain e.g.
workplace
would map tohttps://my.domain/workplace/
Repository is the URL of your git repository with the UI builds
Repository type must be
Interface
for the deployment of a UIBranch is the build branch of the User Interface

Configure Routing
You will need to register the new application on your domain.
Navigate to Domains
Select your application domain + Navigate to the applications tab + Press new Application
The login URL should be set to the location of your
oauth-resp.html
file fromts-client
After that you should be able to access your application at the URL https://my.domain/<folder>/
.
Updating
Once the application is setup in Backoffice it should automatically pull any changes to the set branch every hour. If you to make a manual update there is a pull button in the about section of the repositories page.

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