One of the things I hacked at dur­ing this Py­Camp is try­ing to fig­ure out a nice work­flow for Niko­la, some­thing that will en­able users that are not so tech­ni­cal, to use it.

One first step is Niko­la-as-a-ser­vice, which is meant for tech­ni­cal users any­way but lays down the in­fra­struc­ture for this to work semi-nice­ly.

In the video be­low, you will see me do this:

• Go to GitHub

• Take a starter's blog I pro­vid­ed, and do a clone

• Go to the niko­la-as-a-ser­vice site, and lo­­gin (via twit­ter)

• Cre­ate a site us­ing my fork's re­po URL

• Get a "we­b­hook" URL, and add it to my fork's ad­min as a post-­­com­mit hook

• Ed­it a file in github's web UI and com­mit it (y­ou can of course just push from any github clien­t)

• Au­­to­­mat­i­­cal­­ly, the site niko­la-as-a-ser­vice pub­­lish­es gets up­­­dat­ed.

Please don't try to use this ser­vice yet be­cause:

1. It's run­n­ing in a $4.50/­­month serv­er

2. It's the same serv­er my own blog us­es

3. I will turn it of­f, delete ev­ery­thing, etc. ev­ery once in a while

4. I am ed­it­ing the code on the server, so no guar­an­­tees it will not just stop work­ing.

So, here's the video: