PR previews

[jwindhager]

Prompted by @pmitev's question about easily previewing PR changes:

I think it would be nice to automatically deploy previews to GitHub Pages using a GHA workflow. This is for example done on https://github.com/ome/ngff, see for example ome/ngff#316 (comment). Over there, they make use of the "pull request preview" feature of readthedocs, but there also seem to be GitHub Actions available that enable similar functionality for GitHub Pages, e.g. https://github.com/marketplace/actions/deploy-pr-preview. This specific action would (currently, wip) come with the limitations that it doesn't work for forks, but IMO we could live with that.

What do you all think?

[mahesh-panchal]

I like the idea.

The website is built using Quarto, which means it could potentially run code, but then we should ensure that the modifications in the PR are self contained.

If you're willing to implement something please go ahead, and we can test it out.

[jwindhager]

Done! #125

[jwindhager]

#125 has been merged, closing

[mahesh-panchal]

I'm loving this feature. Thank you.

[CormacKinsella]

Me too! Already useful

[jwindhager]

Thanks, but there is a bug already 🙈 #135