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React Application Architecture for Production - Second Edition
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In this chapter, we set up a complete CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and Render.
We started by understanding what CI/CD is and why it matters. Rather than manually running checks and deploying every time, a pipeline does it reliably and consistently on every push. We then went through the core concepts of GitHub Actions: workflows, events, jobs, actions, runners, and steps, which gave us the vocabulary to understand what we were building.
From there, we created the CI workflow with four parallel jobs covering code quality checks, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. We set up Playwright report uploads that only fire on failure so we always have something to debug when things go wrong.
Finally, we built the CD workflow that watches for CI to pass on main and automatically deploys to Render. We configured the Render service, turned off its built-in auto-deploy, and wired up the credentials through GitHub repository secrets.