Ember Spotlight #6: Ember-Pagefront
If you haven’t heard already, popular static hosting site Divshot was acquired by GoogleFirebase last week. For those of you using them to host your Ember apps, know that the service as we know it will cease to exist on December 14th, 2015. Furthermore, because Firebase hosting is inferior to Divshot, those of you who want a custom domain for your sites will not be able to simply migrate over to their new offering without forking over a subscription fee. Life as we knew it with Divshot is over, unfortunately.
Despair not, however! In walks Pagefront, the dedicated hosting solution for Ember applications! Using their simple addon Ember-Pagefront, you can easily deploy your projects to production in minutes. Simply follow these steps:
Create a Pagefront Account
Add an app in the Pagefront dashboard to represent your application deployment
Copy the installation command from the dashboard an execute it from the command line.
That's it! Now you will be able to deploy your app to Pagefront with ease using the `ember deploy` command.
For my Open Source Good Deed™, I upgraded the addon’s dependencies and removed a lot of the unnecessary dependencies that came from Ember-CLI’s addon generator. I also added the above instructions to their README, since this relatively new service doesn’t have full documentation yet. Even so, I strongly encourage you to check out Pagefront; whether it’s for a personal website, an addon demo page, or a full-fledged ambitious application, Pagefront seems ready to serve the needs of the Ember community!