Developer Builds Free Flutter Web CI/CD Pipeline After Live Site Broke During Job Hunt
A developer overhauled their portfolio deployment process after a dropped Wi-Fi connection mid-upload left their personal site showing a blank white screen for four hours, during which a recruiter visited the link. The incident prompted a move to a fully automated GitHub Actions pipeline for Flutter web apps hosted on Firebase, built over a single weekend. The setup uses GitHub's free Actions minutes and Firebase's free Hosting quota, making it cost $0 per month to run. Key features include dependency caching for faster builds, automatic production deploys on merges to main, and per-pull-request preview URLs using Firebase Hosting preview channels. The developer argues the real value is eliminating human error from the deploy process and enabling smaller, safer, more frequent releases.
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