Deploy the New Service

What’s left to do is to test and deploy the service as part of our continuous deployment pipeline. We already have an example in .github/workflows/services-web.yml. Let’s look at the requirements.

Requirements

1. Run the services-web workflow only when the web application code changes, not when underlying Firebase Cloud Functions change.
2. For each Firebase Cloud Function, create an independent workflow and run it only when the specific service changes.

Updating workflow file

Due to the nature of how Firebase Cloud Functions are set up in sub-directories of services/web, the current services-web.yml workflow would be triggered for all changes to any of the Firebase Cloud Functions because we configured the trigger as follows:

on:
  push:
    paths:
      - "services/web/**"

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