Dmitry Verkhoturov
f4ac5bcea2
The header version badge was filled in by site/src/data/github.js calling
the GitHub releases API at Eleventy build time and baking data[0].tag_name
into every page. This had three failure modes:
1. Layered cache: Buildx caches the yarn build layer; on a release-triggered
workflow nothing under ./site changes, so the cached HTML (with the
previous tag baked in) gets shipped. v1.16.0 went out and remark42.com
kept showing v1.15.0 until a separate site/ commit landed and naturally
invalidated the COPY layer.
2. Tag mismatch: the deploy pulls ghcr.io/umputun/remark42-site:master,
but release events build :v1.16.0 and :latest only. A cache-skip
workflow tweak wouldn't even reach the served image.
3. API propagation race: the workflow fires ~2s after release publish,
so even with cache disabled the API might still return the previous
tag from a stale read replica.
All three vanish if the version is fetched in the browser. GitHub serves
the /releases/latest response with Cache-Control: public, max-age=60 so
per-visitor cost is bounded; failures fall through silently and the
badge stays empty rather than wrong.
Changes:
- header.njk: replace {{ github.latestVersion }} with a
<span data-remark42-version></span> placeholder.
- inline.js: add a fetch of /releases/latest that fills any
[data-remark42-version] element on the page. fallback is no-op on any
network/parse failure.
- delete site/src/data/github.js (Eleventy data file is no longer used).
- drop node-fetch from devDependencies (was used only by github.js).
Remark42 site
Work on your local environment
Requirements:
- Node.js v20 or higher - install from package or with Homebrew
- Yarn 1.22 or higher - once you have Node.js, run
npm i -g yarn
Development
Install dependencies and start the development server:
yarn
yarn dev
Build
yarn build
Work with Docker Compose
Build
Install dependencies and run development server inside Docker:
docker compose build
docker compose up server
Then serve files from ./build with your favorite server
Development
docker compose up --build server
Then head to http://localhost:8080