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I like the idea of this but the process required to deploy it needs to be more carefully thought out. As it is, this currently assumes that any local agency or whatever contractor it works with will:

* Be familiar and comfortable with npm

* Be familiar and comfortable with netlify

* Be aware of this as a possible option

The bar for these folks is pretty darn low. A lot of organizations end up contracting with individuals or organizations not because they're up to speed on modern web development but because they knew them from somewhere else.

Setting this up as some kind of hosted service would probably be a good next step.

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yep. This is a good tool written by a developer who thinks everyone else uses the same tools as he does

I agree, I'd love to see this as a docker container or Makefile where dependencies are automatically pulled in if not present on the host machine.

I think even Docker might be a big ask. I mean, my experience so far has been that a lot of the people that this is targeted towards are still using platforms like Wordpress, Drupal, and Magento (all php...). Heck, git adoption still isn't 100% in this market; I just recently received sftp credentials from an agency that works in this niche.

Agreed. Think something like sheet2site.com, but even then it requires one to be familiar with spreadsheets.

Command line would be the only necessity. You can write a script that could download docker & run it. That's what I meant by Makefile too.

I'd say CLI access is an even higher bar. Even in most medium-sized companies, the website people would never be able to get shell access in a reasonable amount of time, if at all, as they might be using web or CMS hosting.

Scale this up to a government organization, and the chance of it happening is basically zero, especially in an emergency. And even if they host their own web servers and manage to get access to them, the chances of them being able to run Docker or really anything besides what they were set up for without unreasonable effort are slim at best.

I'm not saying Netlify is a good solution, but it's one that a single creative tech could figure out and set up in a day and would be almost guaranteed to work well.

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