Switch from Cloudflare Pages to DigitalOcean on monorepo / next.js apps

[DaviPtrs]

2 scenarios:

1. Use the digital ocean build environment like shown below (only if it's not fucked up like on Cloudflare Pages)
   https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/deploy-from-monorepo/
   https://github.com/digitalocean/sample-monorepo
   https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/buildpacks/nodejs/
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmFtK01G_A8

2. Use our own build environment (with cicd pipelining)
   For that option I'm considering Drone CI, because it's open source and it has support for adding features as a extension.
   Github Actions is absolutely awful for conditional path pipelines and Circle CI is better but far beyond being good.
   https://www.drone.io/
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfJq2UKYCE
   https://github.com/meltwater/drone-convert-pathschanged

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TODO list from the old task:

• Update package maneger to pnpm, PR with new code: feat: switch to pnpm, configuration overhaul, add drizzle, trpc and postgres #26
• Build optimizations for single projects builds
• Cashing
• PostgresSQL Database
• Make CI / lint, format and typecheck work on PRs (.github allready set on repo)

[DaviPtrs]

For now we're using the built in build environment but already found a bug

The build environment often "loses" the next binary

The current workaround is to force rebuild while clearing the build cache

[DaviPtrs]

Summary

We are using Drone CI for most deployments, while others are still being built in the Digital Ocean build environment. All deployments handled by Drone CI are being built as Docker images and then the Digital Ocean app is pointing to the branch Docker tag (main for production and dev for development).

communex-page (Static SPA site built by Digital Ocean)

PROD: https://communex.ai/ , https://communex-page-xw7rh.ondigitalocean.app/
DEV: https://dev.communex.ai/ , https://dev-communex-page-8aoym.ondigitalocean.app/

commune-governance (Drone CI for docker image) (not gone live yet)

PROD: https://commune-governance-q32fh.ondigitalocean.app/
DEV: https://dev-commune-governance-4goke.ondigitalocean.app/

community validator (Drone CI for docker image)

PROD: https://validator.communeai.net/ , https://community-validator-engn6.ondigitalocean.app/
DEV: https://dev.validator.communeai.net/ , https://dev-community-validator-cqpy5.ondigitalocean.app/

commune page (Drone CI for docker image)

PROD: https://communeai.org/ , https://commune-page-xsrfo.ondigitalocean.app/
DEV: https://dev.communeai.org/ , https://dev-commune-page-33rl9.ondigitalocean.app/

comrads-worker (Drone CI for docker image)

It's being deployed under the same app as community-validator

[DaviPtrs]

@EdSDR Do you think is a good idea to put the above guide on the monorepo readme?