add versioning or latest commit information to our about page

[NoamGaash]

It seems like we have some problems with our deployments, or with the caching mechanism, and the frontend isn't always up-to-date on production.
It would help to have some endpoint / entry in the about page that will show the current version

Suggested steps (can be done in same PR or seperated PRs):

• add the commit hash to environment variable or a file in the docker image
• expose this variable

[ofirc77]

Hi @NoamGaash,
Can you please share the flow that we want to have in general for this task and maybe a good place to start with?

[NoamGaash]

@ofirc77 sure, thanks!
I think a good starting point would be the build workflow - https://github.com/hasadna/open-bus-map-search/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml

Writing the commit sha to a file called version-info.json in the public folder could be a nice starting point :)

[ofirc77]

Can we close this issue?

[NoamGaash]

I see that we merged #1010 but https://open-bus-map-search.hasadna.org.il/hash.txt still doesn't serve the hash

[NoamGaash]

I assume that https://github.com/hasadna/open-bus-map-search/blob/main/.github/workflows/cd.yml should be updated as well

[ofirc77]

Added a pull request - #1034

[ofirc77]

After commit was pushed, it seems that issue was resolved :)

[NoamGaash]

amazing, thanks! 🥳 🎊 🚀

[NoamGaash]

next step - add a component to the about page that checks the hash URL and displays it as the current build version

[NoamGaash]

opened #1037 that could solve this issue